Abstract
If judgment is our faculty for dealing with the past, the historian is the inquiring man who by relating it sits in judgment over it. If that is so, we may reclaim our human dignity, win it back, as it were, from that pseudo-divinity named History of the modern age, without denying history's importance but denying its right to being the ultimate judge. Old Cato ... has left us a curious phrase which aptly sums up the political principle implied in the enterprise of reclamation. He said: Victrix causa deis placit, sed vieta Catoni (The victorious cause pleased the gods, but the defeated one pleases Cato). (1978, 1: 216)2
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