The Historical Method of Professor Freeman (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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No one can suppose that he was in any sense ignorant of this enormous mass of history, which he resolutely ignores as part of his system. However much it interested him, he forebore to write about anything which he had not probed to the roots in his own way. His supreme merit as historian is to have insisted in season and out of season on the Unify of History. But his own practice did not altogether do justice to his great theory. Those who do not know his occasional essays and voluminous notes and articles might imagine that he confined himself to the grand struggle between English, Danes, and Normans. And it must be admitted that with all his passion for hav ing the whole of history read together as one continuous biography of Man, he Speaks at times as if Gauls, the Latin races altogether, and modern men in general, were a poor and degenerate race, whose scuffles and vagaries need not detain 'a serious historian' bent on attaining to. The higher truth.

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