If not Now, When? Reclaiming Academic Journals as a Space of Kindness

on his environment and of his environment on man. The object of study is the same: to increase man’s understanding of, and mastery over, his environment. (…) Historian and physical scientist are united in the fundamental purpose of seeking to explain, and in the fundamental procedure of question and answer. The historian, like any other scientist, is an animal who incessantly asks the question ‘Why?’ (86).