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INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF HISTORY

  1. [15] Renan has said some of the truest and best things that have ever been said on the historical sciences in L'Avenir de la science (Paris, 1890, 8vo), written in 1848.
  2. [16] Some of the most ingenious, some of the most logical, and some of the most widely applicable observations, on the method of the historical sciences, have so far appeared, not in books on methodology, but in the reviews—of which the Revue Critique d'histoire et de littérature is the type—devoted to the criticism of new works of history and erudition. It is a very useful exercise to run through the file of the Revue Critique, founded, at Paris, in 1867, "to enforce respect for method, to execute justice upon bad books, to check misdirected and superfluous work."
  3. [17] The first edition of the Lehrbuch is dated 1889.
  4. [18] The best work that has hitherto been published (in French) on historical method is a pamphlet by MM. Ch. and V. Mortet, La Science de l'histoire (Paris, 1894, 8vo), 88 pp., extracted from vol. xx. of the Grande Encyclopédie.
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