tion by William Hazlitt
being included in Bohn's Standard Library under the title of _The
History of Civilization_. The earlier lectures, delivered at the Old
Sorbonne, deal with the general progress of European civilization,
whilst the greater part of the work is an account of the growth of
civilization in France. Guizot's attitude is somewhat antiquated, but
this book still has usefulness as a storehouse of facts. T.H. Buckle's
famous work, _The History of Civilization in England_ (1857-1861),
though only a gigantic unfinished introduction to the author's
proposed enterprise, holds an important place in historical literature
on account of the new method which it introduced, and has given birth
to a considerable number of valuable books on similar lines, such as
Lecky's _History of European Morals_ (1869) and _Rise and Influence of
Rationalism in Europe_ (1865). J.W. Draper's _History of the
Intellectual Development of Europe_ (1861) undertook, from the
American stand-point, "the labour of arranging the evidence offered by
the intellectual history of Europe in accordance with physiological
principles, so as to illustrate the orderly progress of civilization."
Its objective treatment and wealth of learning still give it great
value to the student. Since the third quarter of the 19th century it
may be said that all serious historical work has been more or less a
history of civilization as displayed in all countries and ages, and a
bibliography of the works bearing on the subject would be coextensive
with the catalogue of a complete historical library. Special mention,
however, may be made of such important and suggestive works as C.H.
Pearson's _National Life and Character_ (1893); Benjamin Kidd's
_Social Evolution_ (1894) and _Principles of Western Civilization_
(1902); Edward Eggleston's _Transit of Civilization_ (1901); C.
Seignobos's _Histoire de la civilisation_ (1887); C. Faulmann's
_Illustrirte Culturgeschichte_ (1881); G. Ducoudray's _Histoire de la
civilisation_ (1886); J. von Hellwald's _Kulturgeschichte_ (1896); J.
Lippert's _Kulturgeschichte der Menschheit_ (1886); O. Henne-am-Rhyn's
_Die Kultur der Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft_ (1890); G.
Kurth's _Origines de la civilisation moderne_ (1886), &c. The vast
collection of modern works on sociology, from Herbert Spencer onwards,
should also be consulted; see bibliography attached to the a