For the solution of the question of free will or inevitability, history has this advantage over other branches of knowledge in which the question is dealt with, that for history this question does not
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For the solution of the question of free will or inevitability, history has this advantage over other branches of knowledge in which the question is dealt with, that for history this question does not
From the time the law of Copernicus was discovered and proved, the mere recognition of the fact that it was not the sun…
History examines the manifestations of man’s free will in connection with the external world in time and in dependence …
Thus our conception of free will and inevitability gradually diminishes or increases according to the greater or lesser…
If history dealt only with external phenomena, the establishment of this simple and obvious law would suffice and we sh…
When an event is taking place people express their opinions and wishes about it, and as the event results from the coll…
Only the expression of the will of the Deity, not dependent on time, can relate to a whole series of events occurring o…
The life of the nations is not contained in the lives of a few men, for the connection between those men and the nation…
Having abandoned the conception of the ancients as to the divine subjection of the will of a nation to some chosen man …
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