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Historical school   /hɪstˈɔrɪkəl skul/   Listen
Historical school

noun
1.
A school of 19th century German economists and legal philosophers who tried to explain modern economic systems in evolutionary or historical terms.





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"Historical school" Quotes from Famous Books



... spirit and did more than any other writer to establish the principle that historical transactions must be related to the ideas and conditions of their age. Savigny about the same time founded the "historical school" of law. He sought to show that law was not the creation of an enlightened will, but grew out of custom and was developed by a series of adaptations and rejections, thus applying the conception of evolution. ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others
... theory which regards myth as naturalistic, symbolic, and imaginary, we have the theory which holds a sacred tale as a true historical record of the past. This idea is supported by the so-called Historical school in Germany and America, and represented in England by Dr. Rivers. We must admit that both history and natural environment have left a profound imprint on all cultural achievement, including mythology, but we are not justified ...
— The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi • Hattie Greene Lockett


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