Excerpt from Papers on the Legal History of Government: Difficulties Fundamental and Artificial I suppose that no well informed man, making use of history, makes or is inclined to make, a fetish of it. He will have no illusions in regard to its teaching, and that for two sufficient rea sons; which perhaps should be put as a caution to the less informed. One of these is that, where history deals, as generally is the case, with the complex, the historian can seldom know that he has all the facts necessary to a correct ...
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Excerpt from Papers on the Legal History of Government: Difficulties Fundamental and Artificial I suppose that no well informed man, making use of history, makes or is inclined to make, a fetish of it. He will have no illusions in regard to its teaching, and that for two sufficient rea sons; which perhaps should be put as a caution to the less informed. One of these is that, where history deals, as generally is the case, with the complex, the historian can seldom know that he has all the facts necessary to a correct judgment, or even when he has, that he has them in proper rela tion and adjustment. The facts may be vast in number and complexity in each respect they may also be beyond present knowledge and beyond comprehension. So we have under this first limitation of the uses Of history, at once ignorance of hidden and want of understand ing of known facts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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