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What is history? Out of the millions of events and persons of the past, how are certain events selected as significant? On what ground do we stress the one and neglect the other? And when is an event history? Church historians and secular historians alike give a version of history as totally the product of impersonal natural forces, so that God and Christ become not only abstracted from the past,...

the best expression of this concept. Second, since this truth, an infallible truth, is without any transcendental reference, it is a truth which changes from age to age: as Frothingham said, “The life of the times appoints the creed of the times.” Every age has its new spirit, its new truth, and its new infallible word. And since man cannot transcend himself or his age, and has no transcendental truth, man’s organized spirit, the state, becomes the infallible word over man. The reign of the great
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