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INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF HISTORY

  1. [92] It is because it is necessary to subject documents of mediæval and ancient history to the most searching criticism in respect of authorship that the study of antiquity and the middle ages passes for more "scientific" than that of modern times. The truth is, that it is merely hampered by more preliminary difficulties.
  2. [93] Revue philosophique, 1887, ii. p. 170.
  3. [94] The theory of the critical investigation of authorship is now settled, ne varietur; it is given in detail in Bernheim's Lehrbuch, pp. 242-340. For this reason we have had no scruple in dismissing it with a short sketch. In French, the introduction of M. G. Monod to his Études critiques sur les sources de l'histoire mérovingienne (Paris, 1872, 8vo) contains elementary considerations on the subject. Cf. Revue Critique, 1873, i. p. 308.
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