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INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF HISTORY

  1. [181] Fustel de Coulanges himself seems to have been misled by them: "History is a science; it does not imagine, it only sees" (Monarchie franque, p. 1). "History, like every science, consists in a process of discerning facts, analysing them, comparing them, and noting their connections.... The historian ... seeks facts and attains them by the minute observation of texts, as the chemist finds his in the course of experiments conducted with minute precision" (Ibid., p. 39).
  2. [182] The subjective character of history has been brought out into strong relief by the philosopher G. Simmel, Die Probleme der Geschichtsphilosophie (Leipzig, 1892, 8vo).
  3. [183] This has been eloquently put by Carlyle and Michelet. It is also the substance of the famous expression of Ranke: "I wish to state how that really was" (wie es eigentlich gewesen).
  4. [184] Cf. pp. 219-23.
  5. [185] Curtius in his "History of Greece," Mommsen in his "History of Rome" (before the Empire), Lamprecht in his "History of Germany."
  6. [186] It will be enough to mention Augustin Thierry, Michelet, and Carlyle.
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