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Harbison, Elmore Harris
Christianity and History, 12/2015Book Chapter
The historian’s job is to see things in the perspective of time, to describe human development, and to explain as best he can what change he observes. In a discussion such as this heoughtto be able to establish how men’s “aims and hopes” have changed, say, in the past thousand years, and precisely to what extent the changes have been the result of “advancing science” or of other factors. Some in his audience will probably expect him also to gaze steadily into the crystal ball and predict what is going to happen to human hopes and to science
