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Who Wins Between Past And Present, Now And Then?

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It is at times argued that interpreting men and actions performed in the past is in vain, because we lack that coessentiality in time and space that would afford us the right perspective. This presumes that wo/men, at any given time, are perfectly clear to themselves and masters of their actions.  
 
But as a matter of fact contingency and detachment both can be qualifications for ascertaining a situation; in any legal trial, in fact, both the expert and the inexpert may witness: the former because as expert s/he is entitled to know better, the latter because as inexpert s/he is unprejudiced precisely because s/he does not know better.  
 
A successor doesn't necessarily see less clearly into an issue than the coeval, because what slants or twists our judgement isn't time but preconception, and preconception is by definition timeless and unbounded. You can be a stupid yesterday, today, and tomorrow; and actually most who were half wits yesterday won't be any better the day after tomorrow.
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