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THE SCIENCE OF HISTORY AND THE HOPE OF MANKIND
BENOY—KUMAR—SARKAR
THE SCIENCE OF HISTORY AND THE HOPE OF MANKIND
THE
SCIENCE OF HISTORY
AND THE
HOPE OF MANKIND
BY
BENOY KUMAR SARKAR, M.A.
Lecturer in Political Science, Bengal National College, Calcutta
(National Council of Education, Bengal)
Author of "The Aids to General Culture Series" in English and "The Science of Education and the Inductive Method of Teaching Series" in Bengali
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND GO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
NEW YORK, BOMBAY AND CALCUTTA
1912
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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 sequences and co-existences of social events and movements. History has to be put on the same level with physics and other natural sciences, so that predictions may be possible in the social world as in the physical.
My best thanks are due to Professor Radhakumud Mukerji, M.A., of the National Council of Education, Bengal, for kindly looking over the proofs.
June, 1911.
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