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Purpose and Necessity in Social Theory Molly Burnham present a comprehensive spiritual teachingPhilosopher Maurice Mandelbaum offers a broad ranging essay on the roles of chance, choice, purpose, and necessity in human events. He traces the many changes these concepts have undergone, from the analyses of Hobbes and Spinoza, through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. Mandelbaum examines two contrary tendencies in the history of social theories. Some thinkers, he shows, have explained the character of institutions in terms