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Louis Segal
October 16, 2023
Dr. Gilliard was an exacting teacher. I took several classes with him at CSUH. He became, formally always formally, a friend and I treasured his erudition and his generosity in sharing the truths contained in historical inquiry. He had a typed quotation from R. G. Collingwood on his office door that said:
"But, of course, it [History] was no longer a `closed´ subject. It was no longer a body of facts which a very, very learned man might know, or a very, very big book enumerate, in their completeness. It was an `open´ subject, an inexhaustible fountain of problems, old problems re-opened and new problems formulated that had not been formulated until now. Above all, it was a constant warfare against dogmas, often positively erroneous, and always vicious in so far as they were dogmatic, of that putrefying corpse of historical thought, the `information´ to be found in text-books. For in the history of philosophy, as in every other kind, nothing capable of being learnt by heart, nothing capable of being memorized, is history." He was a wise man. By the time I finished his historiography class and my senior capstone course I was unafraid of the perils of graduate school. Descansa en Paz!
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