He was in an attempt to defend literary people saying that they would not compose proses and verses to make their 'enterprises' successful like history essayists, and that they had no intention to make 'victory' as their final goal.
文学者が史論家のように「事業」をなすために文を作るのではないこと、「勝利」を至上目的にするわけではないことを弁護しようとしたのである。