THE SCIENCE OF HISTORY
human life and institutions of the working of the political machinery. For this is considered to be the function of special classes of scholars, e.g., sociologists, economists, and pedagogists.
The introduction of the principle of Division of Labour in the cultivation of science has no doubt led to rapid growth and development of the several sciences, and by differentiating and rigidly demarcating their scope and function has helped forward the speedy realisation of the end of each. But this differentiation and limitation of the range of study has been attended with the necessary evils and imperfections of the consequent diversity and multiplicity. For the absence of uniformity and of synthetic comprehensive treatment is unfavour-
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