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given serious attention to two branches of the 

 group of historic studies, those concerned with 

 Ancient Greece and the Origins of Christianity. 

 Even in purely historic studies such as these we 

 greatly need a new spirit and better methods. 

 Above all we need to feel that the whole history 

 of the human race is one ; and that everything that 

 has ever happened in the human field may be a 

 light to the present. While investigators, 

 hemmed in by the narrow space of human life, 

 can but master the phenomena of some few 

 phases of history or some aspects of society, all 

 are really working together for a common end. 



I have tried to shew that whereas great im- 

 pulses and ideas come from the unseen, the 

 manner of their working in the world falls within 

 the field of conscious thought and endeavour. 

 And intellect is turning more and more from the 

 attempt to reconcile them with accepted prin- 

 ciples, after the manner of the leaders of the 

 French Revolution and the framers of the 

 American constitution, towards the consideration 

 of their results in experience. In our days 

 democracy has arrived, and has come to stay. 

 We have to educate our masters, and in the first 

 place to instruct them as to what really has hap- 

 pened, and does happen in the world. And it 

 seems to me that the average citizen, the man 

 who now governs the world, will soon be more 

 ready to listen to the proved results of experience 

 than to any sort of a priori appeal. To go no 



