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. The actions of men are caused by their antecedents, which exist Therefore history is the modification of man by nature, and of nature . Statistics prove the regularity of actions in regard to murder and 20-24 The historian must ascertain whether mind or nature has most in- fluenced human actions; and therefore there can be no history NOTE A. Passages from Kant on free-will and necessity 31-32 . 33-35 |