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to it. This is strictly true, and needs no qualifi- 

 cation. 



In his second volume our author develops an- 

 other fundamental law, which we have not time 

 to consider here. It may be stated thus : in a 

 country where the deductive method of investiga- 

 . tion prevails, there will be a much greater differ- 

 ence in the intellectual and social condition of the 

 upper and lower classes than in a country where 

 the inductive method is the prevalent one. This 

 may be illustrated by comparing Greece, Ger- 

 many, and Scotland, on the one hand, with Eng- 

 land and the United States on the other. The 

 application of this law in the case of Germany 

 and America is to be contained in the third vol- 

 ume. 



In conclusion, we must say a few words in re- 

 gard to Mr. Buckle's application of his four great 

 laws. The application of the first runs through 

 the whole work. In every chapter we are met by 

 numberless illustrations of the law that the prog- 

 ress of humanity conforms to the progress of 

 opinion. It is different, however, in the case of 

 the second law which we have discussed. Mr. 

 Buckle appears entirely to forget his theoretical 

 neglect of the moral element in our nature, and 

 to take it practically into account as much as any 



