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Often the historian must consider the use of intuition or instinct by those individuals or nations which he is studying.
Unconsciously, governments or races or institutions may enter into some undertaking without fully realizing why they are doing so.
They react in obedience to an instinct or urge which has itself been impelled by natural law.
A court may strike down a law on the basis of an intuitive feeling that the law is inimical to the numerical majority.
A nation may go to war on some trifling pretext, when in reality it may have been guided by an unconscious instinct that its very life was at stake.
When the historian encounters a situation in which he can perceive no visible cause and effect sequence, he should be alert to intuition and unconscious instinct as possible guides.

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