WHAT DOES HISTORY
TEACH?

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CONTENTS.

PREFATORY NOTE.

The following Lectures were prepared for the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh, and were delivered, with the exception of a few passages, before audiences consisting of Members of that Institution on the evenings of 8th and 11th December in the present year.

Edinburgh, December 1885.

I.
THE STATE.