To all ignorant of this tendency, history, instead of a connected chain, with cause and effect in natural order, is nothing but a disconnected, irregular series of incidents, like separate and confused circles having no common bond.
Sumner describes how ignorance can lead to a fragmented view of history, lacking coherence.
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