IN ENGLANNA BY HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE VOLUME I FROM THE SECOND LONDON EDITION TO WHICH IS ADDED AN ALPHABETICAL INDEX NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1906 252290 STATEMENT OF THE RESOURCES FOR INVESTIGATING HISTORY, AND PROOFS OJ THE REGULARITY OF HUMAN ACTIONS. THESE AOTIONS ARE GOVERNED BY MENTAL AND PHYSICAL LAWS: THEREFORE BOTH SETS OF LAWS MUST BR STUDIED, AND THERE CAN BE NO HISTORY WITHOUT THE NATURAL SCIENCES. Probable origin of free-will and predestination 7-11 Theological basis of predestination, and metaphysical basis of free-will 10-13 Therefore history is the modification of man by nature, and of nature 17-19 Similar proof respecting suicides 19-22 The historian must ascertain whether mind or nature has most influ- enced human actions; and therefore there can be no history with- Man is affected by four classes of physical agents; namely, climate, Under some aspects, nature is more prominent than man, under others In the former case the imagination is more stimulated than the un- Also by an unhealthy climate, making life precarious. This proposition illustrated by a comparison between Hindustan and Further illustration from Central America Chemical and physiological note on the connexion between food and 888 91-93 EXAMINATION OF THE METHOD EMPLOYED BY METAPHYSICIANS FOR DIS- In the last chapter, two leading facts have been established, which broadly separate Europe from other parts of the world. Hence it appears that of the two classes of mental and physical Examination of the two metaphysical methods of generalizing men- |