...transformations. So it has been stated recently by one authority that the object of history is to discover "what are the forces which determine human events and according to what laws do they act", and by another, what are "the laws that bring about the changes we call Progress and Decay, and Development...

...transformations. So it has been stated recently by one authority that the object of history is to discover " what are the forces which determine human events and according to what laws do they act ", and by another, what are " the laws that bring about the changes we call Progress and Decay, and...

...it shape. Now he finds himself confronted with numerous groups of aggressive and confident workers in the same field who ask not what was the fact — many The usual training which a historical student receives has a tendency to give him the impression that...

...it shape. Now he finds himself confronted with numerous groups of aggressive and confident workers in the same field who ask not what was the fact —...of history, or, more modestly, what are the forces that determine human events and according to what laws do they act ? This is nothing else than a new...

...question is what is the ultimate explanation of history, or, more modestly, what are the forces that determine human events and according to what laws...interest in the philosophy, or the science, of history. . . . The emphatic assertion which they all make is that history is the orderly progression of mankind...

...it shape. Now he finds himself confronted with numerous groups of aggressive and confident workers in the same field who ask not what was the fact — many of them seem to be comparatively little ' i interested in that — but their constant question is what is the ulti- ;• mate explanation of...