CH. V. LANGLOIS & CH. SEIGNOBOS

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The facts learnt from documents relate to (1) living beings and material objects; (2) actions, individual and collective; (3) motives and conceptions	217
The facts of the past must be imagined on the model of those of the present—Danger of error especially in regard to mental facts	219
Some of the conditions of human life are permanent—The study of these provides a framework into which details taken from documents are to be fitted—For this purpose systematic lists of questions are to be used, drawn up beforehand, and relating to the universal conditions of life	224
Outline of Historical Construction—The division of labour—Historians must use the works of their colleagues and predecessors, but not without critical precautions	228
CHAPTER II
THE GROUPING OF FACTS
Historical facts may be classified and arranged either according to their time and place, or according to their nature—Scheme for the logical classification of general historical facts	232
The selection of facts for treatment—The history of civilisation and "battle-history"—Both needed	236
The determination of groups of men—Precautions to be observed—The notion of "race"	238
The study of institutions—Danger of being misled by metaphors—The questions which should be asked	241
Evolutions: operations involved in the study of them—The place of particular facts (events) in evolution—Important and unimportant facts	244
Periods—How they should be defined	249
CHAPTER III