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 | | The saga, or epos, was a great advance upon the myth, for in it the deeds of men replace or tend to replace the deeds of the gods. |
| | Chronology and palaeography were placed on a new footing by Dom Bernard de Montfaucons Palaeographia graeca (1708), the monumental Art de verifier les dates (3rd ed., 1818 183 I, in 38 vols.), and the Nouveau Trait de diplomatique (1750-1765) of Dom Tassin and Dom Toustain. |
| | In his Misre de la philosophic (1847) he lays down the principle that social relationships largely depend upon modes of production, and therefore the principles, ideas and categories which are thus evolved are no more eternal than the relations they express, but are historical and transitory products. |
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