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INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF HISTORY

  1. [162] "History of Greece," vols. i. and ii. Compare Renan, Histoire du peuple d'Israël, vol. i. (Paris, 1887, 8vo), Introduction.
  2. [163] And yet Niebuhr made use of the Roman legends to construct a theory, which it was afterwards necessary to demolish, of the struggle between the patricians and the plebeians; and Curtius, twenty years after Grote, looked for historical facts in the Greek legends.
  3. [164] See supra, pp. 93 sqq.
  4. [165] Cf. supra, p. 166.
  5. [166] It is often said, "The author would not have dared to write this if it had not been true." This argument does not apply to societies in a low state of civilisation. Louis VIII. dared to write that John Lackland had been condemned by the verdict of his peers.
  6. [167] See above, p. 153. Similarly, the particular facts which compose the history of forms (palæography, linguistic science) are directly established by the analysis of the document.
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