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Lamprecht : Karl Gottfried (1856-1915), German historian, the first to put forward a psychological theory of history & social development which departed from Europe’s materialistic-economic conception of history & social development dominated by the ideas of its scientific materialism, esp. Marx’s socio-historical materialism. But Lamprecht’s theory was too rigid in its analysis & classification of social phenomena to explain the inner meaning of the phases, the necessity of their succession, their term, & the end to which they drive, thus failing to illumine “the thickly veiled secret of our historical evolution”. [Vide “Social Progress & stages of Social Evolution”, Kishore Gandhi, Mother India, Dec., 2015, pp.973-74]