rst 02/07/24
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Applied Historical Studies are explorations of the past undertaken with the explicit purpose of advancing social scientific enquiries. To 'parti- cipate in the overall scholarly enterprize of discovering and developing general laws of human behaviour';' to test the models of the social scientist 'by running them through the dimension of time'; to help 'clothe' the propositions of social science…
The epoch whose final years are the subject of this book did not die of old age or accident but exploded in a terminal crisis which is one of the great facts of history. No mention of that crisis appears in the following pages for the reason that, as it had not yet happened, it was not a part of the experience of the people of this book. I have tried to stay within the terms of what was known a…
rl/ 20-4-2022
Of course the younger generation are always critical of their elders. They always imagine that the world has only been awaiting their arrival and intervention to become a better and a happier place. But it needs a great deal more than that, a great deal more than such a mild troubling of the waters, to account for a change so abrupt and so decisive as that we are now considering. One day, the F…
the causality underlying highly comples groups of fact thecy yield slowly before methods of science or scholat ship developed step by step, systematically, cumula tively. We possess only partial and scattered techniques as yet to help us answer why civilizations are as they are I therefore renounce at the outset any claim of presem ing nations. Before such understanding of cause can be ing new …
The practice of history has to contend with philosophies of history that exist in two different worlds. One is inhabited by philosophers, the other by historians. Workers in these different worlds rarely attend to the work of each other, despite overlap- ping interests. Nowhere is this more true than in questions surrounding what philosophers call realism and what historians call objectivity. T…
Ance 18/09/24
Ance 18/09/24