the _Zeitschrift fuer
Voelkerpsychologie_, Bd. XII., s. 201.
[14-1] _History of the Philosophy of History_, p. 579.
[15-1] There is nothing in this inconsistent with the principle laid
down by Lecky: "The men of each age must be judged by the ideal of their
own age and country, and not by the ideal of ourselves."--_The Political
Value of History_, p. 50, New York, 1892. The distinction is that
between the relative standard, which we apply to motives and persons,
and the absolute standard, which we apply to actions. The effects of the
latter, for good or evil, are fixed, and independent of the motives
which prompt them.
[17-1] "The historian," says Tolstoi, "is obliged to admit an
inexplicable force, which acts upon his elementary forces." _Power and
Liberty_, p. 28 (Eng. Trans., New York, 1888).
[18-1] See his article "Ueber die Ideen in der Geschichte," in the
_Zeitschrift fuer Voelkerpsychologie_.[TN-6] Bd. III., S. 486.
[18-2] Brooks Adams, _The Law of Civilization and Decay_, Preface
(London, 1895). This author has reached an advanced position with
reference to thought and emotion as the impulses of humanity.
[19-1] _Grundriss der ethnologischen Jurisprudenz_, Band I., s. 4.
[19-2] _Mind and Motion_, pp. 29, 140, etc. (London, 1895.) Prof.
Paulsen goes much further, as, "The inner disposition spontaneously
determines the development of the individual," and "The organism is, as
it were, congealed voluntary action."--_Introduction to Philosophy_,
pp,[TN-7] 187, 190.
[20-1] Before him, however, the expression "ebrius Deo" was applied to
the ancient rhapsodists.
[21-1] As expressed by Prof. Droysen, in his work, _Principles of
History_, (p. 16, New York, 1893), recently translated by President
Andrews, of Brown University--"Historical things are the perpetual
actualization of the moral forces." Elsewhere he says--"History is
humanity becoming conscious concerning itself,"[TN-8] There is no
objection to such expressions; they are good as far as they go; but
they do not go to the end.
[21-2] In the _Zeitschrift fuer Voelkerpsychologie_, Band XI., Heft II.
[21-3] _Ideen zur Geschichte der Menschheit_, B. XV., Cap. I.
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