12 Jul 2015

I can see only one emergency following upon another

Men have discerned in history a plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. [...] I can see only one emergency following upon another [...], only one great fact with respect to which, since it is unique, there can be no generalizations.

H. A. L. Fisher, quoted in Karl Popper, The Poverty of Historicism (Routledge Classics, 2002) p. 100

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