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<p>or a purely speculative account of history toward a "critical theory" that revealed the internal logic of societal development as a necessary, law-governed process.</p>

<p>The concept of history as a succession of "modes of subsistence" can be traced back to the <a href="page.php?w=Scottish_Enlightenment">Scottish Enlightenment</a>. Thinkers such as <a href="page.php?w=Adam_Smith">Adam Smith</a>, <a href="page.php?w=Adam_Ferguson">Adam Ferguson</a>, <a href="page.php?w=John_Millar_%28philosopher%29">John Millar</a>, and <a href="page.php?w=William_Robertson_%28historian%29">William Robertson</a></p><p>
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