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I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

H. A. L. Fisher
Destiny, Play, Development
History of Europe (1935) p. vii
I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.