The Author reserves to himself the right of Translation. LONDON: PRINTED BY ROBSON, LEVEY, AND FRANKLYN, ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS. STATEMENT OF THE RESOURCES FOR INVESTIGATING HISTORY, AND PROOFS OF THE REGULARITY OF HUMAN ACTIONS. THESE ACTIONS ARE GOVERNED BY MENTAL AND PHYSICAL LAWS: THEREFORE BOTH SETS OF LAWS MUST BE STUDIED, AND THERE CAN BE NO HISTORY WITHOUT THE NATURAL SCIENCES. Materials for writing history Narrow range of knowledge possessed by historians Object of the present work Human actions, if not the result of fixed laws, must be due to chance Probable origin of free-will and predestination Theological basis of predestination, and metaphysical basis of free- 9-11 12-16 The actions of men are caused by their antecedents, which exist Statistics prove the regularity of actions in regard to murder and Similar proof respecting suicides 20-24 The historian must ascertain whether mind or nature has most in- fluenced human actions; and therefore there can be no history . 33-35 |