 | Sir John Robert Seeley - Great Britain - 1883 - 340 pages
...that history, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical, object. That is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity...to end with something that might be called a moral. Some large conclusion ought to arise out of it; it ought to exhibit the general tendency of English... | |
 | Cambridge Philological Society - Philology - 1884 - 632 pages
...that History, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object. That is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity...history of England ought to end with something that may be called a moral." Mr Sweet would extend the application of these remarks to the science of language,... | |
 | Religion - 1884 - 838 pages
...that history should be " scientific in its method," but " should pursue a practical object. That is it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity...view of the present, and his forecast of the future " (p. 1). And again : " ... it is with the rise and development of states that history deals " (p.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Books - 1884 - 664 pages
...Seelcy, “while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object. That is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity...view of the present and his forecast of the future ;“ and again, “In history everything depends on turning narra.. tive into problems. . . . Now modern... | |
 | Religion - 1884 - 842 pages
...that history should be " scientific in its method," but " should pursue a practical object. That is it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity...view of the present, and his forecast of the future " (p. 1). And again : " ... it is with the rise and development of states that history deals " (p.... | |
 | American periodicals - 1885 - 850 pages
...history, while it should be sciż entific in its method, should pursue a practical object — that is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity...end with something that might be called a moral.” This, It must be admitted, is a large order. The task of the historian, as here explained, is not merely... | |
 | Great Britain - 1885 - 932 pages
...that history, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object—that is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity...end with something that might be called a moral." This, it must be admitted, is a large order. The task of the historian, as here explained, is not merely... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1887 - 314 pages
...history, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object — that is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity...end with something that might be called a moral.' This, it must be admitted, is a large order. The task of the historian, as here explained, is not merely... | |
 | James Platt - Democracy - 1888 - 224 pages
...that history, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object—that is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity...end with something that might be called a moral." (Profkssor Seeley.) History is a science and should be read and studied to help us in our conduct to-day,... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John P. McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - Education - 1888 - 1260 pages
...reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his views of the present and his forecast of the future. The history of England ought to end with something that might be called a moral. Some large conclusions ought to arise out of it; it ought to exhibit the general tendency of English... | |
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it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his view of the present and his forecast of the future. Now, if this maxim be sound, the history of England ought to end with something that might be called a moral. 
