 This historicism comprises the perspective perceived in Ortega’s notion of the “dynamic dialogue” in the “drama” of the life-world of the individual. Historicism is not used here in the polemical extreme characterized by Karl Popper’s charge that historicism is incompatible with any form of “genuine science”. In his The Poverty of Historicism (1957), which describes and criticizes both “anti-naturalist” and “pro-naturalist” doctrines of historicism, Popper charges the former doctrine with “theology” and “holism” and charges the latter doctrine of advancing the notion that “historical prediction” is their principal objective, something that becomes attainable in discovering the “rhythms”, “patterns”, “laws” or “trends” that underlie the evolution of history. (1957 [1964: 2–4, 39, 128–30])