BY
HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
NEW EDITION.
TORONTO:
ROSE-BELFORD PUBLISHING COMPANY,
60 YORK STREET.
1878.
| CHAPTER I. | |
| STATEMENT OF THE RESOURCES FOR INVESTIGATING HISTORY, AND PROOFS OF THEREGULARITY OF HUMAN ACTIONS. THESE ACTIONS ARE GOVERNED BY MENTAL ANDPHYSICAL LAWS: THEREFORE BOTH SETS OF LAWS MUST BE STUDIED, AND THERECAN BE NO HISTORY WITHOUT THE NATURAL SCIENCES. | |
| PAGE | |
| Materials for writing history | 1–3 |
| Narrow range of knowledge possessed by historians | 4–5 |
| Object of the present work | 6 |
| Human actions, if not the result of fixed laws, must be due to chance or to supernatural interference | 8 |
| Probable origin of free-will and predestination | 9–12 |
| Theological basis of predestination, and metaphysical basis of free-will | 12–16 |
| The actions of men are caused by their antecedents, which exist either in the human mind orin the external world | 18–20 |
| Therefore history is the modification of man by nature, and of nature by man | 20–21 |
| Statistics prove the regularity of actions in regard to murder and other crimes | 22–26 |
| Similar proof respecting suicides | 27–29 |
| Also respecting the number of marriages annually contracted | 31–32 |
| And respecting the number of letters sent undirected | 32 |
| The historian must ascertain whether mind or nature has most influenced human actions; andtherefore there can be no history without physical science | 33–35 |
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