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The ordering and narration of events only has need of an exact

chronology. But precise dating is only a prerequisite, and does not

determine the content of what may be called historical time. !.

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#$n reality, every mutable thing has within itself the measure of its

time% this persists even in the absence of any other% no two worldly

things have the same measure of time. . . . There are therefore &to

be precise &and audacious' at any one time in the (niverse

infinitely many times) *ohann +ottfried erder,Metakritik zur

Kritik der reinen Vernunft &"-' &Berlin "//' 0!. 12. 34546. 67

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The rationalism that also incorporated world history into its

construction certainly has its great dramatic moments% but its

intensity ends in a fever, and it no longer sees the idyllic paradise

before its eyes which the naive optimism of the :nlightenment saw

and which ;ondorcet saw in his spocalypse of the :nlightenment.= ;itation "/

067 ;risis of the ?arliamentary @emocracy