SECTION II
THE SCOPE AND FUNCTION OF HISTORY
ANSWERS to such queries regarding the hopes and the future of mankind are to be expected of the historian. But of late the cultivation of learning has been considerably guided by the principle of the Division of Labour. The tendency has been towards a breaking up of the province of knowledge into several departments and the relegation of each to a separate treatment, with the result that the sciences have become specialised and their scope greatly narrowed.
Historical studies, also, have been attacked by this principle of isolation and specialisation, and have had their
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