The Most Important Event of the Century?

A noted economist steps out of his field to discuss one year—1917—which he believes was decisive in shaping the paths we tread today

In the natural sciences the Christian and the secularist may expect to study the same facts, perform similar researches and, with very few qualifications, reach similar conclusions. This may also be true, to a lesser degree, of some of the humane and social sciences: at any rate of those which deal with the more material aspects of human conduct. But it is emphatically not true of that branch of learning which coordinates all our knowledge of human affairs, namely, history. The secularist treats history as a series of events from which he may deduce a synthesis which is false, such as Marxism; or from which he may draw more limited and defensible conclusions. But in either case his conclusions are only in the natural order, not in the supernatural.

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A noted economist steps out of his field to discuss one year—1917—which he believes was decisive in shaping the paths we tread today

In the natural sciences the Christian and the secularist may expect to study the same facts, perform similar researches and, with very few qualifications, reach similar conclusions. This may also be true, to a lesser degree, of some of the humane and social sciences: at any rate of those which deal with the more material aspects of human conduct. But it is emphatically not true of that branch of learning which coordinates all our knowledge of human affairs, namely, history. The secularist treats history as a series of events from which he may deduce a synthesis which is false, such as Marxism; or from which he may draw more limited and defensible conclusions. But in either case his conclusions are only in the natural order, not in the supernatural.