Because history is the unfolding process and result of human purposeful activities acting on the objective environment, the historical law can only be the law of human activities, which is formed in human activities, and determines the direction and road of social development through activities and functions restricted by social environment.

Historical laws are consistent with human activities. To treat the relationship between them, we can neither deny the objectivity of historical laws nor exaggerate people's dynamic subjectivity, but should grasp the unity of them.

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Characteristics of social and historical laws:

(1) Social law is the law of human practice.

① From the perspective of formation mechanism, it is formed in people's practical activities.

② From the way of action, social laws can only be realized through people's purposeful and conscious activities.

(3) From the form of expression, social laws are mainly statistical laws, revealing the regular relationship between inevitability and various random phenomena.

(2) The objectivity of social law lies in the fact that it is the resultant force of countless individuals who create history. It is independent of anyone's will. Engels' thought that there are countless parallelograms among countless intertwined forces in history shows that:

(1) The purpose of human activities is not subjective, but determined by the material conditions of people's lives;

The purpose of people's activities is expected, but the result of activities is not expected; Conscious human activities can be accelerated or delayed, but they cannot change the general trend of historical development.

The objective law formed by the resultant force of people's interaction is not only determined by people's will, on the contrary, it restricts people's purpose and stipulates the trend of social development.