Jill Lepore - Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a...

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Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special providence, lay behind the fall of each sparrow. If the present differed from the past, it was usually worse: supernatural theories of history tend to involve decline, a fall from grace, the loss of God's favor, corruption.

Jill Lepore

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Theorien der Geschichte waren früher übernatürlich: die göttliche Herrschaftszeit; Die Hand Gottes, eine besondere Vorsehung, lag hinter dem Fall eines jeden Sperlings. Wenn die Gegenwart sich von der Vergangenheit unterschied, war sie normalerweise schlimmer: übernatürliche Theorien der Geschichte neigen dazu, einen Niedergang, einen Abstieg von der Gnade, den Verlust der Gunst Gottes, die Korruption zu beinhalten.

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