. Mental and moral heredity in royalty, a statistical study in history and psychology . «l»* NEW YORKHENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1906 Copyright, 1906By Henry Holt and Company All rights reserved Stanbope press P. H. GILSON COMPANBOSTON PREFACE In the present work I hope to contribute somethingto our knowledge of the science of history. Perhapsthere is not at present a science of history to contributeto. Some have contended that the complicated story ofcivilized man can never be subjected to exact analysis;and Froude has said in his essay, The Science of His-tory, It often seems to me as if h
. Mental and moral heredity in royalty, a statistical study in history and psychology . «l»* NEW YORKHENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1906 Copyright, 1906By Henry Holt and Company All rights reserved Stanbope press P. H. GILSON COMPANBOSTON PREFACE In the present work I hope to contribute somethingto our knowledge of the science of history. Perhapsthere is not at present a science of history to contributeto. Some have contended that the complicated story ofcivilized man can never be subjected to exact analysis;and Froude has said in his essay, The Science of His-tory, It often seems to me as if history was like achilds box of letters with which we can spell any wordwe please. We have only to pick out such letters as wewant, arrange them as we like, and say nothing aboutthose which do not suit our purpose. But the point I wish to make at the start is this, thatthere is a great difference between argument and such methods as have been largely pursued in thepast by philosophers bent on discovering causation inhistory, worthy of the name of science? Have theirsystem
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