ABSTRACT
Philosophies of history which refused to regard particular (relative) wholes as mere stages in the development of a universal whole could, * G. W.F.Hegel, Vernunft in der Geschichte, Vorlesungen iiber die Philosophie der Geschichte, Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 1970, pp. 109, 76. ** Quoted in Friedrich Meinecke, Die Entstehung des Historismus, Verlag von R. Oldenburg, Miinchen/Berlin, 1936, p. 556. *** Quoted in ibid., p. 474. t Ibid., p. 422. t t Ibid., p. 644.
