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Man is in the highest degree a historical being. He is situated in history and history is situated in him. Between man and history there exists such a deep, mysterious, primordial and coherent relationship, such a concrete interdependence, that a divorce between them is impossible. It is impossible to detach man from history and to consider him abstractly as it is to detach history from man and to examine it from without, that is from a non-human point of view. Nor is it possible to consider man isolated from the profoundest spiritual reality of history.
--Prof. Nicolas Berdyaev: The
Meaning of History: P. 15.
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