. International university lectures, delivered by the most distinguished representatives of the greatest universities of the world, at the Congress of arts and science, Universal exposition, St. Louis . . History must be revealed, not recorded, conceivedbefore it is written, and we must all in our several degreesbe seers, not clerks. It is a high calling and should notbe belittled. Statesmen are guided and formed by whatwe write, patriots stimulated, tyrants checked. Reform andprogress, charity, and freedom of belief, the dreams ofartists and the fancies of poets, have at once their recordand
. International university lectures, delivered by the most distinguished representatives of the greatest universities of the world, at the Congress of arts and science, Universal exposition, St. Louis . . History must be revealed, not recorded, conceivedbefore it is written, and we must all in our several degreesbe seers, not clerks. It is a high calling and should notbe belittled. Statesmen are guided and formed by whatwe write, patriots stimulated, tyrants checked. Reform andprogress, charity, and freedom of belief, the dreams ofartists and the fancies of poets, have at once their recordand their source with us. We must not suffer ourselvesto fall dull and pedantic, must not lose our visions or ceaseto speak the large words of inspiration and guidance. Itwere a shame upon us to drop from the ranks of thosewho walk at the van and sink into the ranks of those whoonly follow after, to pick up the scattered traces of themarching host as things merely to pore upon and cannot do this. We will return to our traditions andcompel our fellow historians of literature to write of usas of those who were masters of a great art. WOOBliOW WILSON. , of Princeton Unioersity. THE SCIENCE OF HISTORY IN THE NINE-TEENTH CENTURY. BY WILLIAM MILLIGAN SLOANE [William Milligan Sloane, 3eth Low Professor of History. Colum-bia University, since 1896. b. November 12, 1850, Richmond,Ohio. Columbia, 1868; Leipsic, 1876; Colum-bia, 1885; Rutgers, 1900; Princeton, 1903. Post-graduate,University of Berlin, 1872-75; University of Leipsic, Master Newell Institute, 1868-72. Professor of Latin,Princeton, 1877-82; History, 1882-96. Member Academy of Po-litical Science, American Historical Association, National Insti-tute of Arts and Letters. Author of The French War and theRevolution; Napoleon Bonaparte; The French Revolution andReligious Reform; and editor of The American Historical Re-view.] The scientific study of history seeks to
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