Excerpt from General History of Western Nations, Vol. 1: From 5000 B. C. To 1900 A. D
The present work is the result of twenty-seven years' study of the literary and monumental sources of history, and of the close observation and analysis, in loco, of twenty different types of contemporary civilisation. I attempt to do for the history of the Western nations what Bichat did for Anatomy. Bopp and Pott for Linguistics, or Savigny for Roman Law; I try to write the "General Part" of history. The institutions, events, and important persons in history are innumerable; yet history is not a congeries of countless little facts produced by chance causes. At the basis of all that happened in the history of Western nations there is a series of some twenty to thirty general facts, which singly, and still more by meeting, blending, or antagonising one another, created a multitude of particular facts. The present work treats mainly of these general facts, each of which has conditions, details, and effects of its own.
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