![]() ![]() But to arrive at these laws, resulting from the sum of all those human wills, man's mind postulates arbitrary and disconnected units. ![]() To understand the laws of this continuous movement is the aim of history. ![]() The movement of humanity, arising as it does from innumerable arbitrary human wills, is continuous. In particular, he argues that we should view history as being made up of the infinitesimal contributions of individuals integrated together (in the sense of the definite integral of calculus rather than just the standard English meaning of the word). Tolstoy's famous novel about.well, about war and peace (!) contains long passages explaining an analogy he makes between history and calculus. A list compiled by Alex Kasman ( College of Charleston) ![]()
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