Note 21-1 — An Ethnologist’s View of History.

As expressed by Prof. Droysen, in his work, Principles of History, (p. 16, New York, 1893), recently translated by President Andrews, of Brown University—“Historical things are the perpetual actualization of the moral forces.” Elsewhere he says—“History is humanity becoming conscious concerning itself,” There is no objection to such expressions; they are good as far as they go; but they do not go to the end.