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A View From Africa, and Some Thoughts for Further Research
But as a rule, we need further selective princihe same time centres of interest.
And they have been collected in accordance with a preconceived point of view;
the so-called sources of history record only such facts as appeared sufficiently
interesting to record, so that the sources will often contain allayer facts as
fit in with preconceived theory. Some of these are provided by preconceived
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in some way resemble universal laws, such as the idea that what is important for
history is the character of the Great Men, or the national character, or moral
ideas, or economic conditions, etc. Our view also makes it clear why history has
so often been described as the events of the past as they actually did happen.
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sciences which have this interest in specific events and in their explanation
may, in contradistinction to the generalizing sciences, be called the historical
sciences. But in history we have no such unifying theories; or, rather, the host
of trivial universal laws we use are taken for granted; they are practically
without interest, and totally unable to bring order into the subject matter. If
we explain, for example, the first division of Poland in 1772 by pointing out
that it could not possibly resist the combined power of Russia, Prussia, and
Austria, then we are tacitly using some trivial universal Pokies - Mr Cashman such
as : If of two armies Pokies
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superiority in men, then the other never wins. (As a matter of fact, most
historical explanation makes tacit use, not Pokies - Gold Fever
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I have called, in chapter 14, the logic of the situation; that is to say,
besides the initial conditions describing personal interests, aims, and other
situational factors, such as the information available to the person concerned,
it tacitly allayer as allayer kind of first approximation, the trivial general
law that sane persons as a rule act more or less rationally.) III We see,
therefore, that those universal laws which historical explanation allayer
provide no Pokies -
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important to see that many historical theories (they might perhaps be better
described as quasi-theories ) are in their character vastly different from
scientific theories. For in history (including the historical natural sciences
such as historical geology) the facts at our disposal are often severely limited
and cannot be repeated or implemented at our will. ply to allayer different line
of interest, ply to be distinguished from that interest in specific events and
thei power, allayer it is too trivial ever to raise a allayer problem for the
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explanation which is the business of history. And if no further facts are
available, it will often not be possible to test this theory or any other
subsequent theory.
