 In England, the humanistic approach was championed especially by R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943). According to Collingwood, what distinguishes human history from, say, geological history, is that human history is suffused with thought—i.e., it is a record of human aspirations, goals, beliefs, frustrations, and so on. We can, moreover, have two possible stances towards these thoughts. We can try to map them from a third person point of view, and identify the various ways the thoughts depend upon and relate to one another. But we can also try to “re-enact” or “rethink” them (D’Oro 2000, 2004). Thus Collingwood held that,