 | England - 1890 - 932 pages
...sufficient. History must do more than " merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past. It must modify his view of the present and his forecast of the future." 1 The annals of that English race which has " conquered and peopled half the world" are to the historians... | |
 | AUGUSTINE BIRRELL - 1891 - 350 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... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - History - 1893 - 440 pages
...furnish it some practical lessons. Professor Seeley comes nearer the truth when he says, " History should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his views of the present." II. While slight attention suffices to show that history has disciplinary value,... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - History - 1894 - 382 pages
...furnish it some practical lessons. Professor Seeley comes nearer the truth when he says, " History should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his views of the present." II. While slight attention suffices to show that history has disciplinary value,... | |
 | John Holladay Latané - Maryland - 1895 - 94 pages
...method, should pursue a practical object. That is, it should not only gratify the reader's curiosity, but modify his view of the present and his forecast of the future. " Politics and History are only different aspects of the same study. . . . Politics are vulgar when... | |
 | Social sciences - 1895
...method, should pursue a practical object. That is, it should not only gratify the reader's curiosity, but modify his view of the present and his forecast of the future. " Politics and History are only different aspects of the same study. . . . Politics are vulgar when... | |
 | Medicine - 1896 - 564 pages
...says : "While it should be scientific in its method, it 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." Diseases of the accessory sinuses have received a great deal of attention during the vear, and although... | |
 | Scotland - 1896 - 434 pages
...biographies. It should not, as Seeley says, merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but should modify his view of the present and his forecast of the future. But is it rightly said that one cannot make history more interesting than it is except by falsifying... | |
 | Dugald Butler - Abernathy (Scotland) - 1897 - 604 pages
...has been well said: " History, while scientific in 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. . . . Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - History - 1897 - 410 pages
...furnish it some practical lessons. Professor Seeley comes nearer the truth when he says, " History should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his views of the present." II. While slight attention suffices to show that history has disciplinary value,... | |
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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. 
