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HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL ESSAYS by WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY Longmans, Green, and Co.
39 Paternoster Row, London
New York, Bombay, and Calcutta
1908
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CONTENTS
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THOUGHTS ON HISTORY 1 THE POLITICAL VALUE OF HISTORY 21 THE EMPIRE: ITS VALUE AND ITS GROWTH 43 IRELAND IN THE LIGHT OF HISTORY 68 FORMATIVE INFLUENCES 90 CARLYLE'S MESSAGE TO HIS AGE 104 ISRAEL AMONG THE NATIONS 116 MADAME DE STAËL 131 THE PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE OF SIR ROBERT PEEL 151 THE FIFTEENTH EARL OF DERBY 200 MR. HENRY REEVE 242 DEAN MILMAN 249 QUEEN VICTORIA AS A MORAL FORCE 275 OLD AGE PENSIONS 298 INDEX 319
The Essays 'Thoughts on History,' 'Formative Influences,'
'Madame de Staël,' 'Israel among the Nations,' 'Old age
Pensions,' appeared originally in the American Review, the
Forum the first under the title of 'The Art of Writing
History'; 'Ireland in the Light of History,' in the North
American Review . Those on Sir Robert Peel, Mr. Henry Reeve,
and Dean Milman were written for the Edinburgh Review . The
Essay on 'Queen Victoria as a Moral Force' appeared first in
the Pall Mall Magazine ; 'Carlyle's Message to His Age' in
the Contemporary Review . 'The Political Value of History'
was a presidential address delivered before the Birmingham and
Midland Institute; 'The Empire,' an inaugural address
delivered at the Imperial Institute; and the 'Memoir of the
Fifteenth Earl of Derby' was originally prefixed to the
volumes of his speeches and addresses.
HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL ESSAYS
THOUGHTS ON HISTORY
I do not propose in this paper to enter into any general inquiry about
the best method of writing history. Such inquiries appear to me to be
of no real value, for there are many different kinds of history which
should be written in many different ways. A diplomatic, a military, or
a parliamentary history, dealing with a short period or a particular
episode, must evidently be treated in a very different spirit from an
extended history where the object of the historian should be to
describe the various aspects of the national life, and to trace
through long periods of time the ultimate causes of national progress
and decay. The history of religion, of art, of literature, of social
and industrial development, of scientific progress, have all their
different methods. A writer who treats of some great revolution that
has transformed human affairs should deal largely in retrospect, for
the most important part of his task is to explain the long course of
events that prepared and produced the catastrophe; while a writer who
treats of more normal times will do well to plunge rapidly into his
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