Is History Still a Fraud?
Nasser Zakariya · Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences · 2012
Roughly eighty years ago, J. B. S. Haldane questioned whether History, the academic and pedagogical discipline of History, was a fraud.New attitudes toward sacred texts and success in deciphering ancient scripts had made it possible ''to-day for the first time to take a bird's eye view of history as a whole.'' 1 By way of contrast with the prehistoric barbarism of invasions and stone ages revealed in art and human skulls, and, earlier still, of the prevalence of the ''half-men'' recorded in flint tools and Neanderthal skulls, History