in the modern-age, history: “was no longer composed of the deeds and sufferings of men… it became a man-made process, the only all-comprehending process which owed its existence exclusively to the human race. Today this quality which distinguished history from nature is also a thing of the past. We know today that though we cannot ‘make’ nature in the sense of creation, we are quite capable of starting new natural processes, and that in a sense we ‘make nature’ to the extent, that is, that we ‘make history’. It is true that we have reached this stage only with the nuclear discoveries…”
Hannah Arendt, “The Concept of History,” Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought (New York: Penguin, 1993), 58.