Four Lectures on the Handling of Historical Material (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Four Lectures on the Handling of Historical Material If a competent person should compile an account of all the histories which have been produced since the days when man first set down in writing the events of time past, perhaps the most interesting, and certainly the most important, of his epochs would be the century which has last slipped away. For while the art of historical writing has never stood still, the changes which have come over that art in the course of the nineteenth century are beyond comparison the most far-reaching which have yet been experienced. During that period grew to maturity the theories which at present shape our ideas of historical study and determine our attitude towards historians. The outward and visible sign of these changes was the growth of the four great national schools of history in Europe, of which the characteristics and achievements are well portrayed in a recent book. But beneath the more obvious surface-manifestations there may be detected an essential transformation which has affected the whole province of historical writing. To say that the present is the age of the specialist may savour of the commonplace, but in the field of the historian the statement has an importance which redeems it from banality, summing up as it does in a single sentence the achievements of more than one hundred years of startling progress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.