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Table of Contents

Simultaneous development of history and civilization.

Two errors in our method of considering the past; proud disdain, or superstitious admiration.

Historic impartiality the vocation of the present age.

Divisions of the history of the political institutions of Europe into four great epochs.

Representative government was the general and natural aim of these institutions.

Object of the course; inquiry into the origin of representative government in France, Spain, and England.

State of mind appropriate to this inquiry.