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In five essays, including three on historiography, one of greatest minds in English political thought in twentieth century explores themes central to human experience: nature of history, rule of law, and quest for power that is intrinsic to human condition. Michael Oakeshott believed, as Timothy Fuller observes, that the historian's effort to understand past without ulterior motive is the effort which distinguishes historian as historian from all who examine past for guidance they expect it to provide about practical concerns.
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