Category: History - British
STATEMENT OF THE RESOURCES FOR INVESTIGATING HISTORY, AND PROOFS OF THE REGULARITY OF HUMAN ACTIONS. THESE ACTIONS ARE GOVERNED BY MENTAL AND PHYSICAL LAWS: THEREFORE BOTH SETS OF LAWS MUST BE STUDIED, AND THERE CAN BE NO HISTORY WITHOUT THE NATURAL SCIENCES.
It is difficult for an ordinary reader, living in the middle of the nineteenth century, to understand, that only three hundred years before he was born, the public mind was in t...
10. part ii. p. 35, part iii. p. 64; _Notes on the Ma-habharata_, in_Journal of Asiatic Society_, vol. vii. p. 141; _Travels of Ibn Batuta in Fourteenth Century_, p. 164; _Colebrooke's Digest of Hindu Law_, vol. i. p. 499, vol. ii. pp. 44, 48, 4...
12. CHAPTER IV.In the preceding chapter, it has, I trust, been made apparent, that, whatever may hereafter be the case, we, looking merely at the present state of our knowledge, must pronounce...
13. CHAPTER V.By applying to the history of Man those methods of investigation which have been found successful in other branches of knowledge, and by rejecting all preconceived notions which...
8. CHAPTER I.STATEMENT OF THE RESOURCES FOR INVESTIGATING HISTORY, AND PROOFS OF THE REGULARITY OF HUMAN ACTIONS. THESE ACTIONS ARE GOVERNED BY MENTAL AND PHYSICAL LAWS: THEREFORE BOTH SETS...
9. CHAPTER II.If we inquire what those physical agents are by which the human race is most powerfully influenced, we shall find that they may be classed under four heads: namely, Climate, Foo...
18. xxiii. See also, respecting the greater strength of the Tories in[814] Compare _Vernon Correspond._ vol. iii. p. 149, with _Burnet's Own Time_, vol. iv. p. 504. Burnet says, 'All the Jacobites joined to support the pretensions of the Commons....
7. CHAPTER VII.[In order to assist those who wish to verify my references, and also with the view of indicating the nature and extent of the materials which I have used, I have drawn up the fo...
19. li. See also, in regard to the repeal of the Stamp Act, the_Grenville Papers_, vol. iii. p. 373; a curious passage, with which Lord Mahon, the last edition of whose history was published in the same year (1853), appears to have been una...
14. CHAPTER VI.I have now laid before the reader an examination of those conspicuous circumstances to which the progress of civilization is commonly ascribed; and I have proved that such circu...
11. CHAPTER III.The evidence that I have collected seems to establish two leading facts, which, unless they can be impugned, are the necessary basis of universal history. The first fact is, tha...
16. part i. pp. 86, 87; and at p. 88, 'Judas matrem suam uxorem[501] This took place in the year 798. _Matthæi Westmonast. Flores Historiarum_, part i. p. 293. The historian thus concludes his relation: 'Et statutum est nunc quòd numquam ex...
15. part i. pp. 266, 289, part ii. p. 298.[474] Even the descriptions of natural objects which historians attempted in the Middle Ages, were marked by the same carelessness. See some good observations by Dr. Arnold, on...
4. CHAPTER IV.The three principal ways in which the progress of knowledge has lessened the warlike spirit are: 1. The invention of gunpowder 203-209 2. The discoveries made by political econo...
5. CHAPTER V.2. CHAPTER II.1. CHAPTER I.STATEMENT OF THE RESOURCES FOR INVESTIGATING HISTORY, AND PROOFS OF THE REGULARITY OF HUMAN ACTIONS. THESE ACTIONS ARE GOVERNED BY MENTAL AND PHYSICAL LAWS: THEREFORE BOTH SETS...
6. CHAPTER VI.3. CHAPTER III.