c. German experience—Biedermann’s Kulturbilder. The conditions of German life at selected stages described, compared, and contrasted.

5. A Growing Recognition of the General Point of View.

a. Influence of democratic ideals.

b. Industrial education an important factor in securing change of emphasis.

c. An enlarged view of history.

1. Carlyle’s protest against the older historians.

2. Macaulay’s theory of history.

3. The work of John Richard Green.

4. McMaster’s People of the United States.