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What kind of person was he/she who made it happen?
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But that was what I was saying earlier. The prevailing ethos (at least in American historical circles, and I would suspect European as well) is that the individual did not make it happen. The choices that individual people make are not important because the overall flow of history will find the person to make the choices and do the deeds. One person will serve as good as the next. That's why there is little emphasis on the individual.
Not that I agree with this viewpoint, but that is the prevailing one at this moment.
[ June 04, 2002: Message edited by: Kuruharan ]