Historical science, whatever may be said,[56] is not a science of observation at all.
All the more necessary are the precautions to be taken in utilising these documents, the only materials of historical science.
These studies of words," said Fustel de Coulanges, "have a great importance in historical science.
There is therefore ample ground for a consideration of anthropological conditions as part of the necessary equipment of the study of folklore as an historical science.
Philology, whether classical or oriental, whether treating of ancient or modern, of cultivated or barbarous languages, is an historical science.
Seydel indeed delivered himself into their hands, because he did not entirely avoid the rash assumption of theosophic "historical science" that Jewish eschatology can be equated with Buddhistic.
Sir George Gomme, in his Folklore as an Historical Science (p.
His standpoint on myth is to be found in his able and liberal-minded treatise upon Folklore as an Historical Science, on p.
In this sense he and Engels declared that economics (the economics studied by them), was an historical science.
The task of historical scienceis just as little exhausted, however, with the fixing of former events as, for instance, the task of physics with the establishment of a single fact, as the temperature of a given place at a given time.
Geology is as much a historical science as archæology; and I apprehend that all sound historical investigation rests upon this axiom.
This second fundamental rule of historical science may be thus simply expressed:--we should not wish to explain every thing.
In all such special departments of historical science, the great whole of history is made subordinate to some secondary object; and this cannot be otherwise.
Let us look at the facts:-- I had tried to show in my very first Lecture in what sense the Science of Language might properly be called a physical, and in what sense it might be called an historical science.
Geology is as much a historical science as archaeology; and I apprehend that all sound historical investigation rests upon this axiom.
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