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PREFACE
THE present work is based on the Lectures on the Science of History which I delivered to my classes in History at the Bengal National College, Calcutta. My object was to survey, not historically but according to the philosophico-comparative method, the phenomena of civilisation and point out the laws or generalisations that may be deduced out of the facts of universal history.
Human civilisation, like physical facts and phenomena, requires to be studied in such a way as to lead to the detection of uniformities in the
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