Sentences with phrase «instinct as a historian»

My instinct as a historian is that four is probably right.

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But anyway, do you think Beinart's essay captures the political instincts of the millennial Dems, or is it, as lefty historian Michael Kazin suggests (H / T, RCP), simply a case of wishful lefty thinking?

8 Cf. the striking remark of intellectual historian C. C. Gillispie: «Lamarck's theory of evolution was the last attempt to make a science out of the instinct, as old as Heraclitos and deeply hostile to Aristotelian formalization, that the world is flux and process, and that science is to study, not the configurations of matter, nor the categories of form, but the manifestations of that activity which is ontologically fundamental as bodies in motion and species of being are not.