e study of Modern History is, next to Theology itself, and only
next in so far as Theology rests on a divine revelation, the most
thoroughly religious training that the mind can receive. It is no
paradox to say that Modern History, including Medieval History in the
term, is co-extensive in its field of view, in its habits of
criticism, in the persons of its most famous students, with
Ecclesiastical History.--STUBBS, _Lectures_, 9. Je regarde donc
l'etude de l'histoire comme l'etude de la providence.--L'histoire est
vraiment une seconde philosophie.--Si Dieu ne parle pas toujours, il
agit toujours en Dieu.--D'AGUESSEAU, _OEuvres_, xv. 34, 31, 35. Fuer
diejenigen, welche das Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit erkannt haben,
bildet die denkende Betrachtung der Weltgeschichte, besonders des
christlichen Weltalters, die hoechste, und umfassendste Theodicee.--VATKE,
_Die Menschliche Freiheit_, 1841, 516. La theologie, que l'on regarde
volontiers comme la plus etroite et la plus sterile des sciences, en
est, au contraire, la plus etendue et la plus feconde. Elle confine a
toutes les etudes et touche a toutes les questions. Elle renferme tous
les elements d'une instruction liberale.--SCHERER, _Melanges_, 522. The
belief that the course of events and the agency of man are subject to
the laws of a divine order, which it is alike impossible for any one
either fully to comprehend or effectually to resist--this belief is the
ground of all our hope for the future destinies of mankind.--THIRLWALL,
_Remains_, iii. 282. A true religion must consist of ideas and facts
both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere
philosophy; nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are
the symbols, or out of which they are grounded; for then it would be
mere history.--COLERIDGE, _Table Talk_, 144. It certainly appears
strange that the men most conversant with the order of the visible
universe should soonest suspect it empty of directing mind; and, on
the other hand, that humanistic, moral and historical studies--which
first open the terrible problems of suffering and grief, and contain
all the reputed provocatives of denial and despair--should confirm, and
enlarge rather than disturb, the prepossessions of natural
piety.--MARTINEAU, _Essays_, i. 122. Die Religion hat nur dann eine
Bedeutung fuer den Menschen, wenn er in der Geschichte einen Punkt
findet, dem er sich voellig unbedingt hingeben kann.--STEFFENS,
_Christliche Re