However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century. (Wilhelm Dilthey)

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.

Wilhelm Dilthey

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