The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
There aren't that many policy changes you can do, so I'd say you ride the wave and hope that maybe some of the external events help you.
This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

