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| CHAPTER I | |
| THE SEARCH FOR DOCUMENTS | |
| Documents: their nature, use, necessity | 17 |
| Utility of Heuristic , or the art of discovering documents | 18 |
| The difficulties of Heuristic—Ancient times—H. H. Bancroft—State of things at the Renaissance | 19 |
| Growth of libraries—Collectors—Effects of revolutionary confiscation in promoting the concentration and the accessibility of documents | 20 |
| Possible future progress—Need for the cataloguing and indexing of documents | 27 |
| Students and bibliographical knowledge—Effect of present conditions in deterring men from historical work | 32 |
| The remedies—Official cataloguing of libraries—Activity of learned societies—of governments | 34 |
| Different kinds of bibliographical works needed by students | 37 |
| Different degrees of difficulty of Heuristic in different parts of History—to be kept in view when choosing a subject of research | 38 |
| CHAPTER II | |
| "AUXILIARY SCIENCES" | |
| Documents are raw material, and need a preliminary elaboration | 42 |
| Obsolete views on the historian's apprenticeship—Mably, Daunou | 43 |
| Commonplace and exaggeration on this subject—Freeman—Various futilities | 45 |
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