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THE SCIENCE OF HISTORY



by the followers of Islam. Subjection and independence, progress and degeneration, national achievement and decay were not the fruit of the activities of individual peoples, and cannot be explained solely by the. heroism or degeneracy of the nations themselves. These were not the results of isolated movements, but were the joint-products of the whole process of human affairs.