Abstract
instill civic norms should spur us on to one more try (635). Leonard, however, contends the effort will be 'pure futility and waste.' For that reason, I concentrate on his analysis. We should study our discipline's history. Knowledge of the improves understanding of the present. Albert Somit and Joseph Tanenhaus2 observed that American political scientists were ignorant of the discipline's history, and that they paid a heavy price in time, effort, and controversy for their failure to attend more closely to their past (1967, 3).3 That said, two caveats should be noted. First, the does not automatically reveal itself. Historical facts have to be selected, sorted, and explained, and careful selection of some facets of the past-along with even more careful passing over of others in silence-can create a dis-
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