历史学是理解现实的一种方式作为学历史的人,我总感觉,正如一个人有性格,一个民族有“国民性”一样,一个国家的历史学大概也有特定的性格或者气质,尽管探究和状述某国历史学的性格气质与对国民性的研究一样,都是一件犯难冒险之事。在我有限的阅读范围内,我又总感觉到,小亚瑟·施莱辛格的《生命力中心:自由的政治》很能体现美国历史学的秉性气质的某些方面。 Historiography is a way to understand reality as a person who studies history. I always feel that just as a person has a character and a nation has “national character, ” a country’s history may also have a specific character or temperament, though To explore and state the character and temperament of a country’s history is just as a matter of crime and adventure as it is about the study of national character. Within my limited reading, I have always felt that Little Arthur Schlesinger’s Vitality Center: Free Politics can reflect certain aspects of the natural temperament of American history.