On se demandait parfois s'il ne regrettait pas l'engagement qu'il avait pris, avec tout ce travail qu'il était obligé de faire, mais ce genre d'idées ne lui effleurait pas l'esprit.
Sometimes one had to wonder if he regretted the commitment he had made, the work he was to do, although he was never heard to express such an idea himself.
Il allait de soi pour lui que la méthode historique était digne de foi et sans équivoque ; l’idée que cette méthode reposât sur des présupposés philosophiques et qu’il pût être nécessaire de réfléchir sur ses implications philosophiques ne l’effleurait même pas.
He took for granted the reliability and the unequivocability of the historical method; the idea that philosophical presuppositions also played a part in that method, and that it could become necessary to reflect on the philosophical implications of the historical method, never entered his head.
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