Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Story of the Christian Centuries
Any student of history in this decade is fortunate in the inheritance of much broad and philosophical thinking on the course of human development. The old drum and fife histories, which dealt with campaigns and diplomacies, have been supplanted by a very different class of productions. It has at length come to be recognized that the real forces are mental and spiritual, and that revolutions have been delayed or hastened by the prevalence of ideas and sentiments among whole peoples. Guizot was a student of spiritual causes, as is seen in his history in Which is set forth the genius and growth of the French people. John Richard Green delighted to trace the underlying forces that shaped the English nation. Hallam was a philosophical student of history, as also was Mr. Froude. All of these histo rians may have failed of accuracy and some times even of justness, but their methods and purposes have been true and productive.
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