Excerpt from History

History itself has a long history, extending, in Europe, from Herodotus and Thucydides to the most recent discussions in the current numbers of the "Historische Zeitschrift" and the "Moyen Age." The changes which have from time to time overtaken it during two thousand years and more, have left indelible impressions which can alone explain the peculiar plight in which this particular branch of knowledge finds itself to-day, with all its inconsistencies, incongruities and vagueness of purpose. As we have listened to the clear and confident paeans of praise and thanksgiving which my predecessors in this course have raised, week after week, it has become clear to me that "blessed is the science without a history." Chemistry, Astronomy, Zoology, Physiology may have had a few errors of youth to live down, but they found themselves before their sensibilities had been permanently perverted by unfortunate associations. With History it is different. It seems never to lose any habits once formed. It adds new ambitions while retaining its old ones, discredited though they may be.

The story teller was probably the first to discover Historj -;at any rate it has been unmistakably epic from the beginning.

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