Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Wood , R. G. Colling (2008-11-30), The Idea of History, Read Books, Retrieved on 2012-02-01Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: history Memes
01 FEB 2012
Psychology Cannot Establish Laws of Human Nature
To regard such a positive mental science [psychology] as rising above the sphere of history, and establishing the permanent and unchanging laws of human nature, is therefore possible only to a person who mistakes the transient conditions of a certain historical age for the permanent conditions of human life.Folksonomies: history psychology
Folksonomies: history psychology
Because, like history, it is a transient thing.
01 FEB 2012
Scientists See Phenomena, Historians Look for Motives
To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the sense of being a spectacle presented to his intelligent observation; whereas the events of history are never mere phenomena, never mere spectacles for contemplation, but things which the historian looks, not at, but through, to discern the thought within them.Intelligent observation versus an attempt to understand the thoughts behind events.