each peak is compiled to understand history as an assortment of major events intersperced with smaller less significant events (hardly remembered). History is pieced together.
it will always approximate, generalize and finally equate differences; it will always weaken the disparity of otives and occasions in order, at the expense of the cause, to present the effect monumentally, that is, as exemplary and worth of imitation. Monumnetal history the, since it disregards causes as much as possible, could without much exaggeration be called a collection of "effects in themselves", or of events which will at all times produce an effect.
...whenever the monumental vision of the past rules over the other ways of looking at the past, I mean the antiquarian and the critical, the past itself suffers damage: very great portionas of the past are forgotten and despised, and flow away like a grey uninterrupted flood, and only single embellished facts stand out as islands: there seems to be something unnatural and wondrous about the rare persons who become visible at all, like the golden hip which the pupils of pythagoras thought they discerned their master.
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