It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it.


Chapter 1, Scientific Method and the Social Sciences, p. 35 - The Evolution of Civilizations (1961) (Second Edition 1979)


It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it.

It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it.

It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it.

It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it.