ABSTRACT
The laws by which society develops are not predestined, they follow no set scheme. Flowing always from the matter of history, from the motion of society itself, they change with every turn in this essential substratum. 1 The profound intervention in the civilization base of human life signified by the scientific and technological revolution in its entirety—viewing it in its intrinsic correlation with the whole complex of social revolution of our day—cannot fail to impinge on the elementary laws of history. In many respects the course of civilization acquires a new logic and time scale.
