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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Essays & Lectures by Oscar Wilde: cannot be reproduced]), and refuse to consider how far the result
of anything is its rational consequent, what is left is a mere
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cannot be reproduced], an oratorical essay which may give pleasure
for the moment, but which is entirely without any scientific value
for the explanation of the future. Elsewhere he says that 'history
robbed of the exposition of its causes and laws is a profitless
thing, though it may allure a fool.' And all through his history
the same point is put forward and exemplified in every fashion.
So far for the conception of history. Now for the groundwork. As
regards the character of the phenomena to be selected by the
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