I'm often called a conservative historian, maybe righteously so. For I've noticed many dismissals from popular academia were charged with moral and superiority complex. Such rejections seem to be made for the sake of rejection alone. I try to find sense in so called victorian biases for they must have had a reason to persist at the first place. This is not to say that they are invariably correct, but I demand better arguments than mere appeals to modernity alone. This is a general issue with people: the young generation often rejects their intellectual predecessors as mere barbarians. It's a mistake that we've made so many times that all apology is insufficient. Whilst we may presently be superior to our immediate predecessors, they too held such views, and in a hundred years hence, our posterity may deride us for similar reasons. Honesty demands us to acknowledge the foundations laid by our forerunners and accord them the respect they deserve. Let us not forget that evolution is not invariably a progression- it is arbitrary. For each favorable mutation, there are countless forms of degenration. The notion that something is superior purely on account of its modernity is ridiculous.