我們對歷史的愛好起源于我們最初僅對一些歷史上的宏偉場面和激動人心的事件感到孩童般的興趣;其后，這種愛好變得成熟起來，我們開始對歷史這出“戲劇”的多樣性和復(fù)雜性，對歷史上的輝煌成就和悲壯失敗也感興趣;對歷史的愛好，最終以我們對人類生命的一種深沉的神秘感而告結(jié)束。對死去的，無論是偉大與平凡，所有在這個地球上走過而已逝的人，都有能取得偉大奇跡或制造可怕事件的潛力。

　　.It begins as a childlike interest in the grand spectacle and exciting event; it grows as a mature interest in the variety and complexity of the drama, the splendid achievements and terriblefailures; it ends as deep sense of the mystery of man„s life of all the dead, great and obscure, who once walked the earth, and of wonderful and awful possibilities of being a human being.