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INTRODUCTION

My approach to history is deeply patternological. I am not so much interested in a specific event in history, but how it ties in to other events, and how we appreciate our past in the present. In this way, I attempt to identify patterns in history that give indications of our future …. Anthony North

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The following essays are on this page:

Soul and Stone - We think of our buildings as simply that, but in their grandest form, they reflect the soul of what man thinks he is at that particular time in history.

Democracy By Numbers - In this essay it is argued that history suggests there is a numerical limit to a population for true democray to thrive. Go above this limit, and problems are around the corner.

First World War - Here I examine the course of the First World War, its causes, and the inevitable outcome.

Industrial Revolution - This was the time that capitalism and technology formed the modern world - and also the time of great social upheaval.

A History of Art - Art is essential to our understanding of ourselves for it charts what we are as people and society. Indeed, you can trace the rise of individuality and other concepts through how artists see the world.

Second World War - As well as narrating the events of the Second World War, in this essay I look to the reasons. And those reasons were based on philosophy.

Renaissance - This was the period when the west began to move away from a Christianity that held man back. With an explosion of art, and an enquiring mind that wanted to learn, it was the birth of the modern world.

Dialectic & Opposites - The dialectic was devised as a means of debate, but some philosophers went on to apply it to the processes of history, with disastrous consequences. What was wrong with the dialectic? And in realising what that error was, could we have a new understanding of the processes of history which could assist us towards peace today? A peace achieved by a realisation that in identifying an enemy, we literally define that enemy by the degree of validity we give it.

Enlightenment - The 18th century Enlightenment is narrated here, but what was the result of thinking men creating a new world? Most of the problems of today, including two world wars. The answer, in modern society, is not to think, but is this an error?

Historic People:

Winston Churchill
Leonardo da Vinci
Charles Darwin
Sigmund Freud
Adolf Hitler
Martin Luther
Karl Marx
Isaac Newton
Napoleon Bonaparte
William Shakespeare

The Story of the Story:

The First Stories
Storytelling and Myth
Christianity Rules, OK
Double, Double Toil and Trouble
The Grail and Other Stories
The Birth of Modern Man
Enlightened Mind
Moving Pictures
The Cyber-Story