Why a historian can publish without claiming research is finished

The discussion returns to the limits of archival completeness after covering the book's publication and illustrations. Historians rarely feel they have exhausted every possible source, which is different from admitting that the existing research is inadequate. Further archive work on the Daring class might produce later articles rather than a replacement edition. This is a useful explanation of how scholarship can be responsibly complete for publication while remaining open to revision and extension.