If the successive historical texts are only enlarged editions of the first text—more facts, more dates, more words—then history deserves most of the sharp criticism which it is receiving from teachers of science, civics, and economics.

如果后续的历史文本只是第一个文本的放大版——更多的事实、更多的日期、更多的文字——那么历史应该受到来自科学、公民和经济学教师的大部分尖锐批评。