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INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF HISTORY

  1. [200] The discussion of this argument, which was formerly much used in religious history, was a favourite subject with the earlier writers who treated of methodology, and still occupies a considerable space in the Principes de la critique historique of Père de Smedt.
  2. [201] This is what Montesquieu attempted in his Esprit des Lois. In a course of lectures at the Sorbonne, I have endeavoured to give a sketch of such a comprehensive account.—[Ch. S.]
  3. [202] See p. 204.
  4. [203] Michelet has discredited the study of physiological influences by the abuse which he has made of it in the last part of his "History of France"; it is, however, indispensable for the understanding of a man's career.
  5. [204] On the subject of statistics, a method which is now perfected, a good summary with a bibliography will be found in the Handwörterbuch der Staatswissenschaften, Jena, 1890-94, Ia. 8vo. and two good methodical treatises, J. von. Mayr, Theoretische Statistik and Bevölkerungsstatistik, in the collection of Marquardsen and Seydel, Freiburg, 1895 and 1897, Ia. 8vo.
  6. [205] As is done by Boardeau (l'Histoire et les Historiens, Paris, 1888, 8vo), who proposes to reduce the whole of history to a series of statistics.
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