{"product_id":"2940148335849","title":"History of Civilization in England, Vol. 1 of 3","description":"STATEMENT OF THE RESOURCES FOR INVESTIGATING HISTORY, AND PROOFS OF THE REGULARITY OF HUMAN ACTIONS. THESE ACTIONS ARE GOVERNED BY MENTAL AND PHYSICAL LAWS: THEREFORE BOTH SETS OF LAWS MUST BE STUDIED, AND THERE CAN BE NO HISTORY WITHOUT THE NATURAL SCIENCES.\u003cbr\u003e  PAGE\u003cbr\u003eMaterials for writing history 1–3\u003cbr\u003eNarrow range of knowledge possessed by historians 4–5\u003cbr\u003eObject of the present work 6\u003cbr\u003eHuman actions, if not the result of fixed laws, must be due to chance or to supernatural interference 8\u003cbr\u003eProbable origin of free-will and predestination 9–12\u003cbr\u003eTheological basis of predestination, and metaphysical basis of free-will 12–16\u003cbr\u003eThe actions of men are caused by their antecedents, which exist either in the human mind or in the external world 18–20\u003cbr\u003eTherefore history is the modification of man by nature, and of nature by man 20–21\u003cbr\u003eStatistics prove the regularity of actions in regard to murder and other crimes 22–26\u003cbr\u003eSimilar proof respecting suicides 27–29\u003cbr\u003eAlso respecting the number of marriages annually contracted 31–32\u003cbr\u003eAnd respecting the number of letters sent undirected 32\u003cbr\u003eThe historian must ascertain whether mind or nature has most influenced human actions; and therefore there can be no history without physical science 33–35\u003cbr\u003eNote A. Passages from Kant on free-will and necessity 35–38\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lost Leaf Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078933823728,"sku":"2940148335849","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148335849_p0.jpg?v=1763701458","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148335849","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}