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induction as proceeding by means of isolation of relevant facts and elimination 

 of irrelevant ones (Chapter II, 19). To consider all the problems these concepts 

 present, however, would require too long a digression from the subject of this 

 chapter. 



31 Ibid., pp. 612-613. 



32 Ibid., pp. 616-617. 



33 Ibid., p. 617. 



34 Chapter I, 7. 



35 History of English Literature, II, 617. 



36 Vol. XIII, 9 and 16 March, 1857, one of which has already been cited 

 (Chapter III, 39). 



37 Ibid., p. 254. 



38 Ibid., p. 257. 



39 Ibid., p. 279. 



40 Ibid., pp. 261, 262, 272. 



41 The letter described Sainte-Beuve as 'Inventor of a critical method, the 

 finest of psychologists, the most loving and most delicate painter of life' 

 {V. & C, II, 148). 



42 Essais, p. 74. Ernst Cassirer saw Taine as having, rather, formulated and 

 developed Sainte-Beuve's method: 'But what Sainte-Beuve practised with an 

 easy virtuosity and an insurpassible gift of sympathy, has only been shaped by 

 his great pupil, Hippolyte Taine, into a firm and rigorous method. Taine was 

 the first to introduce a firm scheme which could thenceforth hold good for all 

 studies of cultural history' {Naturalistische und humanistische Begrilndung der 

 Kidturphilosophie , p. 10, S. J.K.). 



43 Ibid., p. v. 



44 'History Considered as an Art' (especially Chapter II, on 'The Characters 

 in Livy', and the section on 'Narrations' in Chapter III). 



45 Les Philosophes classiques, pp. 1 1 7. 



46 Essais, p. viii. 



47 Ibid., p. ix. 



48 Ibid., p. xi. 



49 Ibid., p. xii. 



50 Les Philosophes classiques, pp. iii-v. 



51 Ibid., p. vii. 



52 Ibid., p. viii. 



53 Ibid., p. ix. 



54 '. . . Humboldt himself has only made a catalogue of acquired facts' {Les 

 Philosophes classiques, p. 311). 



55 Ibid., p. 312. 



56 Ibid., p. 314. 



