History should be written as philosophy.
All history is the history of thought.
A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.
Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies: the means.
The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.
There is but a shallow stream of thought in history.
The way people really think is not adequately analyzed by the universal categories of logic. Between social history and formal analyses of thought there is a path, a lane - maybe very narrow - which is the path of the historian of thought.
Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.
