(2) The possibility and probability of accurate statement on the part of the one recording the event.
(3) The efficiency of the adjustment of means to ends.
(4) The righteousness of the act.
(5) The motives and ideals that dominated the act.
(e) It develops the power of comparison through demanding attention to similarities and differences in motives, agents, means, processes, events, places, dates, and results.
(f) It develops the power of classification—of coördinating and subordinating data.
(g) It develops the habit of forming generalizations from detailed facts.
(h) It gives a real conception of the meaning of time, through the considerations of man's slow evolution in social relations.
(i) It gives ability to take a large view of life's affairs and interests,—to see things in their essential relations.
2. Social, Political, and Civic.