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The Origins of Cultural History: 3 – The Origins of the Conflict: Political Lawyers, Classical Scholars, Narrative Historians

Isaiah Berlin

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Law and Universal History Are One

Law and universal history are undivided limbs of one body. We cannot understand law unless we understand history, an inec and history unless we understand law. I shall live to see a universal history assembled,. sacred and civil, old and new, our own and foreign. Then out of these two bodies, these two corpora, as it were, out of history and jurisprudence, i should like, in one single volume to be made. The observer is one thing, the performer is another. Men are not mere spectators of life. Men are judges and interpreters of it. You dex well, interprets of life. And rays omana, which a man can

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