now, that's as good as kapslation as holmes' work. but did he learn it in the regimen? i think not.put it in another way, i think only in translation. thank you. [ applause ] >> okay, so my job here is really just to try to get this discussion going and keep us from going over 7:00, as i've been instrukted by the powers that be. but what i'm really interested in as holmes, a a justice, was considered a philosopher king. and people have sort of had a field day with his different philosophies. during the war, he made a transition from abolitionism to something else. and i think there's a disagreement about what that something else is, right? professor mcpherson said it was pragmatism and then professor white was resisting the idea, i think, toward the end, that it was jobbism. that that was sort of constructed later on. that that's not really what the war taught him at all.ú!7! i guess what i'm wondering, are these competing narratives about holmes' world view philosophy? are they mutually exclusive? contradictory? which sort of narrative do you buy most about how the war affected hol