 | Leon Roth - Civics - 1949 - 184 pages
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 | History - 1924 - 954 pages
...of history which it suggests. We may not feel disposed to go as far as Sir John Seeley when he says "the history of England ought to end with something that might be called a moral," but he is undoubtedly right in holding that "history should pursue a practical object." The point of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1884 - 694 pages
...Professor Seeley, " 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 narrative into problems. . . . Now modern... | |
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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. 
