Historical time, however, differs from this mechanical time. It determines much more than the possibility of spatial changes of a specific magnitude and regularity – that is to say, like the hands of the clock – simultaneously with spatial changes of a complex nature. And without specifying what goes beyond this, what else determines historical time – in short, without defining how it differs from mechanical time – we may assert that the determining force cannot be grasped by, or wholly concentrated in, any empirical process. Rather a process that is perfect in historical terms is quite indeterminate empirically; it is in fact an idea.
– Walter Benjamin, ‘Trauerspiel and Tragedy’, in Selected Writings Vol.1, 1913-26, pp.55-57, p.55.
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There is no History, in hegelian sense.