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History has no predetermined path: its course turns on unpredictable contingencies rather than on deep currents that would have produced the same outcome anyway.
Drawn from what Bret Devereaux said
What Bret Devereaux actually said
- Bret Devereaux Ancient and military historian specialising in the economy…
As much as we might want to imagine that the greater currents push historical events largely on a predetermined path with but minor variations from what must always have been, in practice events are tremendously contingent on unpredictable variables.
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