Treasures of Time
“Either it does or it doesn’t; ‘may well’ is journalese. Substitute ‘provides’ for ‘may well provide’… ‘As Stukeley’s attempts to interpret the information he had gathered move from the objective and scientific to the subjective and fantastic, as he starts to believe not what the facts suggest but what he would like to believe, we see…’ Well, what we see is a man behaving like most people, and not like a historian, which is what he is setting out to be. Historians are not allowed to use the past... for their own ends. Nor, by the same token, are blokes who happen through accident of fate to own the only complete set of Inigo Jones plans and sketches pertaining to a particular house. Nor are politicians, house agents, antique dealers, autobiographers or any other category of person that does so most of the time. ‘… Nevertheless, however tarnished Stukeley’s credibility as an antiquarian after his ordination in 1728, his early work remains as testimony to a vigorous and enquiring mind, while the pattern of his career serves as a…’… useful rung for the scholarly progress of one Tom Rider, in this present year of grace, himself involved in the same line of business.MoreLess
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