HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION IN ENGLAND.

BY

HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

NEW EDITION.

TORONTO:
ROSE-BELFORD PUBLISHING COMPANY,
60 YORK STREET.
1878.

ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
STATEMENT OF THE RESOURCES FOR INVESTIGATING HISTORY, AND PROOFS OF THEREGULARITY OF HUMAN ACTIONS. THESE ACTIONS ARE GOVERNED BY MENTAL ANDPHYSICAL LAWS: THEREFORE BOTH SETS OF LAWS MUST BE STUDIED, AND THERECAN BE NO HISTORY WITHOUT THE NATURAL SCIENCES.
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Materials for writing history	1–3
Narrow range of knowledge possessed by historians	4–5
Object of the present work	6
Human actions, if not the result of fixed laws, must be due to chance or to supernatural interference	8
Probable origin of free-will and predestination	9–12
Theological basis of predestination, and metaphysical basis of free-will	12–16
The actions of men are caused by their antecedents, which exist either in the human mind orin the external world	18–20
Therefore history is the modification of man by nature, and of nature by man	20–21
Statistics prove the regularity of actions in regard to murder and other crimes	22–26
Similar proof respecting suicides	27–29
Also respecting the number of marriages annually contracted	31–32
And respecting the number of letters sent undirected	32
The historian must ascertain whether mind or nature has most influenced human actions; andtherefore there can be no history without physical science	33–35
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