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INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF HISTORY

  1. [117] It is common to hear the opposite of this maintained, namely, that the labours of critical scholarship (external criticism) have this advantage over other labours in the field of history that they are within the range of average ability, and that the most moderate intellects, after a suitable preliminary drilling, may be usefully employed in them. It is quite true that men with no elevation of soul or power of thought can make themselves useful in the field of criticism, but then they must have special qualities. The mistake is to think that with good will and a special drilling every one without exception can be fitted for the operations of external criticism. Among those who are incapable of these operations, as well as among those who are fitted for them, there are both men of sense and blockheads.
  2. [118] A. Philippi, Einige Bemerkungen über den philologischen Unterricht, Giessen, 1890, 4to. Cf. Revue Critique, 1892, i. p. 25.
  3. [119] J. von Pflugk-Harttung, Geschichtsbetrachtungen, Gotha, 1890, 8vo.
  4. [120] Ibid., p. 21.
  5. [121] Cf. supra, p. 99.
  6. [122] Renan, L'Avenir de la science, p. xiv.
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