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The course of history as a whole is no object of experience history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.

Eric Voegelin

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Eric Voegelin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1901
Born: January 3
Died: 1985
Died: January 19
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Cologne
Germany
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