Like Gibbon (whose view of the Roman Empire she absolutely contradicts), Simone Weil as a historical writer is tendentious, exhaustive, and infuriatingly certain.

• 作为一个历史学家，她并不总是处在最佳状态，没有一个从根本上怀疑时代更迭和历史变革的人会从历史学家那里得到令他完全满意的答案。