Psychohistory is not content to violate the discipline of history ; it also violates the past itself. It denies to the past an integrity and will of its own, in which people acted out of a variety of motives and in which events had a multiplicity of causes and effects. It imposes upon the past the same determinism that it imposes upon the present, thus robbing people and events of their individuality and of their complexity. Instead of respecting the particularity of the past, it assimilates all events, past and present, into a single deterministic schema that is presumed to be true at all times and in all circumstances.
20. Which of the following best states the main point of the passage?
The approach of psychohistorians to historical study is currently in vogue even though it lacks the rigor and verifiability of traditional historical method.
Traditional historians can benefit from studying the techniques and findings of psychohistorians.
Areas of sociological study such as childhood and work are of little interest to traditional historians.
The psychological assessment of an individuals behavior and attitudes is more informative than the details of his or her daily life.
History is composed of unique and nonrepeating events that must be individually analyzed on the basis of publicly verifiable evidence.
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