C. THE LOGIC OF HISTOKY 



HISTOKY, in the strictest sense of the word, is the 

 enumeration of the things which have followed one 

 another in order of time. History deals with the single, 

 with regard both to time and space. Even if its facts 

 are complex in themselves and proper to certain other 

 kinds of human study, they are nevertheless regarded by 

 history as single. Facts, we had better say, so far as they 

 are regarded as single, are regarded historically, for what 

 relates to specific time and space is called history. 



Taken as a simple enumeration or registration, history, 

 of course, cannot claim to be a " science 5: unless we are 

 prepared to denude that word of all specific meaning. But 

 that would hardly be useful. As a matter of fact, what 

 has actually claimed to be history, has always been more 

 than a mere enumeration, even in biology proper. So- 

 called phylogeny implies, as we have shown, that every 

 one of its actual forms contains some rational elements. 

 Phylogeny always rests on the assumption that only some 

 of the characters of the organisms were changed in trans- 

 formism and that what remained unchanged may be 

 explained by the fact of inheritance. 



But this, remember, was the utmost we were able to say 

 for phylogeny. It remains fantastic and for the most part 



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