Freedom and Power

Appendix

APPENDIX NOTES TO CHAPTER I — INAUGURAL LECTURE ON THE STUDY OF HISTORY

NOTE: This lecture was delivered at Cambridge, June 11, 1895 (London, 1895): reprinted in Lectures on Modern History (London: Macmillan Co., 1906), pp. 1-30 and 319-342.

Wer nicht von drei tausend Jahren sich weiss Rechenschaft zu geben, Bleib’ im Dunkeln unerfahren, mag von Tag zu Tage leben!

Goethe.

What can be rationally required of the student of philosophy is not a preliminary and absolute, but a gradual and progressive, abrogation of prejudices.— Sir W. Hamilton, Lectures, IV, 92.

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