Mysteries of the Earth [antikvár]

ProloguePlea for an Open HistoryThe concept of a closed history is relatively recent. By closed history I mean a history in which ail events are considered the result of natural or human causes. Throughout most of its past, humanity has also believed in the intervention of external causes in history: demons, supernatural creatures, gods, and, finally, God. It was not until the nineteenth century that the idea of a history totally without external intervention, one in which causality was exclusively limited to our own planet, gained credence. And, like so many ideas of the nineteenth century, this is susceptible to argument and has in fact led to a great deal of debate.