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MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
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1904
| M. Taine as a man of letters | 261 | |
| Political preparation needed for the historian | 262 | |
| M. Taine's conception of history | 265 | |
| Its shortcomings | 266 | |
| Chief thesis of his book | 268 | |
| The expression of this thesis not felicitous | 269 | |
| Its substance unsatisfactory | 272 | |
| Cardinal reason for demurring to it | 275 | |
| Adaptation of the literary teaching of the eighteenth | ||
| century to the social crisis | 277 | |
| Why that teaching prevailed in France while it withered | ||
| in England | 280 | |
| Social Elements. The French Court | 282 | |
| The Nobility | 283 | |
| M. Taine exaggerates the importance of literature | 286 | |
| Historic doctrine could have saved nothing | 287 | |
| Lesson of the American Revolution | 288 | |
| Conclusion | 289 |
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