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The Origins of Cultural History: 1 – Two Notions of the History of Culture: The German versus the French Tradition

Isaiah Berlin

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The Moralists of the Past World

The number of good men and badmen, the number of noble ignoble any age, is probably the same. We don't know very much about the motives which moved men in previous ages to the cti exhibition of the particular kind of aesthetic or moral or religious attitudes they had. What is not forgotten is the only thing which persists forever, and that is invent and discovery. These are ultimately simply expressions of some kind of imotial attitude. And thus will winner away.

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