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INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF HISTORY

  1. [41] Catalogues of documents sometimes, but not always, mention the fact that such and such a document has been edited, dealt with critically, utilised. The generally received rule is that the compiler mentions circumstances of this kind when he is aware of them, without imposing on himself the enormous task of ascertaining the truth on this head[sic] in every instance where he is ignorant of it.
  2. [42] E. Bernheim, Lehrbuch der historischen Methode, 2nd ed., pp. 196-202.
  3. [43] C. V. Langlois, Manuel de Bibliographie historique: I. Instruments bibliographiques, Paris, 1896, 16mo.
  4. [44] E. Renan, Feuilles détachées (Paris, 1892, 8vo), pp. 96 sqq.
  5. [45] vii. p. 228 sqq.
  6. [46] E. A. Freeman, The Methods of Historical Study (London, 1885, 8vo), p. 45. In France geography has long been regarded as a science closely related to history. An Agrégation, which combines history and geography, exists at the present day, and in the lycées history and geography are taught by the same professors. Many people persist in asserting the legitimacy of this combination, and even take umbrage when it is proposed to separate two branches of knowledge united, as they say, by many essential connecting links. But it would be hard to find any good reason, or any facts of experience, to prove that a professor of history, or an historian, is so much the better the more he knows of geology, oceanography, climatology, and the whole group of geographical sciences. In fact, it is with some impatience, and to no immediate advantage, that students of history work through the courses of geography which their curricula force upon them; and those students who have a real taste for geography would be very glad to throw history overboard. The artificial union of history with geography dates back, in France, to an epoch when geography was an ill-defined and ill-arranged subject, regarded by all as a negligeable branch of study. It is a relic of antiquity that we ought to get rid of at once.
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