(n) The Report of the Committee of Five of the American Historical Association in 1907 embodied the best ideas which the decade had developed looking to further improvement of historical study and teaching.
(o) The Committee of Eight has still more recently sought to perfect the art of studying and teaching the subject.
VII. Values and Aims of History.
1. Psychological.
(a) It develops the power of constructive imagination through the visualizing of scenes, events, and characters, and the effort to put oneself back into the past.
(b) It trains the reasoning faculty through the necessity of analyzing data, seeking causes and effects, and following historical development wherever it may lead.
(c) It develops the power of associative memory through the necessity of bringing facts into their essential and definite relations.
(d) It trains the judgment, through requiring the mind to make estimates respecting
(1) The probability of the fact recorded.