kareev

Tolstoy was perfectly right to protest that history is not made to happen by the combination of such obscure entities as the __ower_ or __ental activity_ assumed by naïve historians; indeed he was, in Kareev__ view, at his best when he denounced the tendency of metaphysically minded writers to attribute causal efficacy to, or idealise, such abstract entities as __eroes_, __istoric forces_, __oral forces_, __ationalism_, __eason_ and so on, whereby they simultaneously committed the two deadly sins of inventing non-existent entities to explain concrete events and of giving free reign to personal, or national, or class, or metaphysical bias.