CS Lewis against the judgement of history

From CS Lewis’s 1950 essay “Historicism,” in which Lewis takes on “the belief that men can, by the use of their natural powers, discover an inner meaning in the historical process”:

“Some who in general deserve to be called true historians are betrayed into writing as if nothing failed or succeeded that did not somehow deserve to do so. We must guard against the emotional overtones of a phrase like ‘the judgement of history’. It might lure us into the vulgarest of all vulgar errors, that of idolizing as the goddess History what manlier ages belaboured as the strumpet Fortune.”

For “the judgement of history” see also “Progress,” the direction of “the arc of history,” being on “the right side of history” or its opposite, etc. etc. etc.