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become scientific in the sense that modern popular chemistry or 

 zoology is scientific. For the scientific has become during the past 

 century a dangerous rival of the literary interest. 



The progress of history as a science must depend largely in the 

 future as in the past upon the development of cognate sciences, - 

 politics, comparative jurisprudence, political economy, anthropology, 

 sociology, perhaps above all of psychology. It is these sciences 

 which have modified most fundamentally the content of history, 

 freed it from the trammels of literature, and supplied scientific canons 

 for the study of mankind. They are the auxiliary sciences of history 

 in a far deeper sense than are paleography, diplomatics, or even 

 philology. The sciences relating to mankind will hereafter dominate 

 the work of the historian. His task, it will be seen, is nothing less 

 than the synthesis of the results of special sciences, a task so grand 

 and comprehensive that it will speedily wean him altogether from 

 literature, for no poet or dramatist ever set before himself a nobler 

 or a more inspiring task, or one making greater demands upon the 

 imagination and the resources of expression than that which now lies 

 before the historian. 



