Löwith's view that history is a manifestation of an all-encompassing nature is entailed in his final or developed argument against historicism which itself consists of a fourfold analysis of the entire problem of historical thought: first, he investigates the relationship between history and historical consciousness; secondly, he analyzes the distinction between the natural sciences and the cultural or historical sciences; thirdly, he seeks to demonstrate the "logical" weaknesses and fallacies of the historicist position itself; and finally, he asserts that history, far from being a realm of free human activity, is, in essence, a sheer "happening" or a Geschehen as automatic, autonomous, and inevitable as the happenings in nature.