Synthése Mangas

was intended to turn the Revolutionary values of 210 THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 1789 into the articles of a new republican faith. Influenced by the current of positivism after 1850, numerous ‘philosophies of history’ were generated and vast syntheses explained the future by distilling truths from the past. Fustel de Coulanges (1830–89) made the organic unity of societies dependent not on economic forces but on religion and shared political myths. Marx (Das Kapital, 1867) offered an explanation