[Redbook8:111][19901112:1205c]{Historical Laws}[12th November 1990]
19901112.1205
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[(Notes for reference [continued]:)]
(Note: N[ew] S[cientist] 19900908/127, 1733/66: H Pollack, ‘Genes and history’, in which a biologist argues that Human DNA should be read, not as a set of laws, but as a book.
But: ‘No serious historian expects the historical record to yield rules that predict the course of history, or which order historical and political events by their closeness to an historical “ideal”. Every claim to have found such laws of history has turned out to be premature, and many have also been excuses for terrible, murderous behaviour.’
– ibid, 67)
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