The passage is: Here there is a sort of question, call it historical, of which we are only glimpsing today, the conception, the formation, the gestation, the labor.

这段话是：,有一个问题吧，关于历史的，我们今天只粗略地看看，它的设想，构成，妊娠，和分娩。

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Why do we have this periodicity when you take history courses?

为什么我们上历史课的时候会有一个一个时期

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