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HISTORY
OF
CIVILIZATION IN ENGLAND.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
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.
Human actions, if not the result of fixed laws, must be due to chance
or to supernatural interference
6
Probable origin of free-will and predestination
7-11
Theological basis of predestination, and metaphysical basis of free-will 10-13
The actions of men are caused by their antecedents, which exist either
in the human mind or in the external world
13-14
Therefore history is the modification of man by nature, and of nature
by man
15
Statistics prove the regularity of actions in regard to murder and other
crimes
17-19
Similar proof respecting suicides
19-22
Also respecting the number of marriages annually contracted.
And respecting the number of letters sent undirected
23
24
The historian must ascertain whether mind or nature has most influ-
enced human actions; and therefore there can be no history with-
out physical science .
26
NOTE A.-Passages from Kant on free-will and necessity
26-28