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come historical. (Of. Fiske, in Popular Science 

 Monthly, September, 1891). 



2. Origin of the doctrine of Evolution as applied to 

 institutions. (^4) Influence of Aristotle ("Politics," 

 I., 2 : Jowett, I., p. 2 ff.) ; Plato ( u Laws," III., 680 ff. : 

 Jowett, II., p. 209). (B) Influence of George L. v. 

 Maurer, Freeman, and others. 



3. Institutional history has a scientific method. (A) 

 The historical laboratory. (B) The establishment of 

 the first historical laboratory (Seminarium, Exercita- 

 tiones Historicae) by Leopold von Ranke, in Berlin, 

 Ca., 1830. (C) History has an efficient scientific no- 

 menclature, whose terms are historically significant. 

 Examples. 



