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It has not been our intention to give, as Mr. W. B. Boyce has done, a summary of universal history for the use of beginners and readers of scanty leisure. Nor has it been our intention to add a new item to the abundant literature of what is ordinarily called the "Philosophy of History." Thinkers, for the most part not professed historians, have made history the subject of their meditations; they have sought for its " analogies " and its " laws." Some have supposed themselves to have discovered " the laws which have governed the development of humanity," and thus to have " raised history to the rank of a positive science." These vast abstract constructions inspire with an invincible a `priori mistrust, not the general public only, but superior minds as well. The history of the attempts which have been made to understand and explain philosophically the history of humanity has been undertaken, as is well known, by Robert Flint. Mr. Flint has already given the history of the Philosophy of History in French- speaking countries : "Historical Philosophy in France and French Belgium and Switzerland," Edinburgh and London, 1893.
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ISBN : 9788121265157
Pages : 382
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