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What Is History Purposeful?
During the chapter fate, sophie gets three questions from the philosopher, the chapter attempts to assume them by saying everything in life is predetermined, then it talks about how a doctor and a philosopher began looking for naturalistic explanations for events that occurred in life,

I think this quote was put in this chapter because all three of those religions are the same, they prey to the same god. To me this quote means if you can't learn from the past your doomed to be stuck in it. He who is living by hand to mouth isn't getting up and living a new future, he's living the same thing over and over (hand to mouth).

Is history purposeful, in a way history is by all mean purposeful? There is a saying that stats history is doomed to
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