‘History and philosophy’, the problem I am dealing with, does not seem to be a Greek one. It seems much more to be a modern one. You may find this both in English books—e.g. Collingwood on the idea of history, which I read with great interest and profit—and in some German essays, especially by younger philosophers, who state the disastrous gap between the philosophical desire for sense and the absence of sense in history, particularly as epitomized by the most recent events of our own history. It is obvious that philosophers in this crisis feel more troubled than historians. Classical scholars do not seem to be moved at all.