Before revision: ] an explanatory principle in elucidating the meaning of events, past and present".Smith, A.D. (1991).
After revision: Smith, for instance, develops the concept of 'historicism' to describe an emerging belief in the birth, growth, and decay of specific peoples and cultures, which - in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - became "increasingly attractive as a framework for inquiry into the past and present and...] an explanatory principle in elucidating the meaning of events, past and present".Smith, A.D. (1991).