Making History

Hume's analysis of Causality exposes the latter's traditionally entailed concept of 'Necessity' as habitual expectation.  But, within his own doctrine, while a sense-datum, e. g. a color, might be passively experienced, as his term 'Impression' subtly connotes, neither Habit nor Expectation merely befalls one.  So, perhaps unwittingly, he exposes the error in the traditional implication that Causality is merely a passively observed happening.  Now, Determinist theories of History also entail Necessity.  Thus, from Hume can be derived the challenge to those theories--that History does not happen, but is made.  Furthermore, absent Necessity, the outcome of such making is not guaranteed in advance.