““if we want to read an old book, perhaps just as it was read on the day it was written, we cannot simply leap into the past context. Nor can we stand in a position outside history where we could see the text without a context. We cannot remove our historically derived commitments, for that would require us to stop thinking, and we cannot easily swap our contemporary commitments for past ones, because we must ignore our commitments while we rely on them to think.””
