But that does not exempt one from the duty to obtain clarity about how things and persons " really " were ( to use one of ranke 's terms ) .
不过这并不能撤销一个人澄清事实的责任，事情到底是什么样，这个人真正是什么。
Positivism history which was formed in germany in the nineteenth century and represented by l. ranke was influenced by natural science then and there and inherited prior historians ` excellenct traditions of paying attention to criticize historical data in the process of composition .
Moreover , if the people of the first babylonian dynasty ( about 21st century bc ) called themselves " amorites , " as ranke seems to have shown , then obviously a common origin with them was recognized by the babylonians at that early date .
