timefulness definition
timefulness. , whether that means evolution or an existence which takes time.” He was sure that if the question whether history “coincides in essentials with this modern conception of nature” were posed to “the ordinary historian”, the latter would “answer it in the negative”. For according to such a historian, said Collingwood, “all history properly so called is the history of human affairs”.76 This did not mean, however, “that all human actions are subject-matter for history; and indeed historians are agreed that they are not.” Collingwood’s expanded on this point ran as follows: “… so far as man’s conduct is determined by what may be called his animal nature, his impulses and appetites, it is non-historical; the process of those activities is a natural process.” A historian, he said, “would not be interested in the fact that men eat and sleep and make love and thus satisfy their natural appetites.” But