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Here I have Richard Rorty citing B.F. Skinner: 
"The indispensable value for studying the history of ideas is to learn the 
distinction between what is necessary and what is the product of our own 
contingent arrangements". 
 
That is, how much is just a reflection of immediate institutional and 
informational environments, a reflection of what is currently convenient 
and fashionable; for those who wrote in the past and for those who write 
now?  Surely this lesson is as important for those just starting out as it 
is for graduate students;  perhaps, more important. And surely the best, if 
not the only, way to learn this lesson is to read originals from different 
times and  
places. 
 
Robin Neill. 
 
 
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