 Upon his retirement in 1960, Miller remained in Williamstown and continued his practice of philosophical conversation.However, the years of his retirement found Miller faced with the strong encouragement of a handful of former students who urged him to publish the four public addresses just mentioned and some of the many essays that he had penned over the years.In 1961 Miller published "The Ahistoric and the Historic" as an Afterword to a volume of translated essays by José Ortega y Gasset, "History as a System and Other Essays Toward a Philosophy of History".