An Ethnologist's View of History: An Address Before the Annual Meeting of the New Jersey Historical Society, at Trenton, New Jersey, January 28, 1896: ... Jersey, January 28, 1896 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from An Ethnologist's View of History: An Address Before the Annual Meeting of the New Jersey Historical Society, at Trenton, New Jersey, January 28, 1896

In this manner a vast mass of material is accumulating with which the historian has to deal. What now is the real nature of the task he sets before himself? What is the mission with which he is entrusted?

To understand this task, to appreciate that mission, he must ask himself the broad questions What is the aim of history? What are the purposes for which it should be studied and written?

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