This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...and there could be no more fatal error from the point of view of the humane sciences, and even perhaps from the point of view of the sciences of life in general. Nothing tends more completely to divert attention from the most important aspects of the subject--those that relate to qualities and ends. (2) This brings me ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...and there could be no more fatal error from the point of view of the humane sciences, and even perhaps from the point of view of the sciences of life in general. Nothing tends more completely to divert attention from the most important aspects of the subject--those that relate to qualities and ends. (2) This brings me to the consideration of the second way in which a humanistic point of view may be expected to affect economic study--viz. by directing special attention to the conditions of human development. The historical school has done much to bring out the importance of this aspect of the subject, and to throw light upon it; yet the association of it with history is apt to be somewhat misleading. A historical method of study, if by this is meant a method which interests itself in the chronicling of past facts and conditions, is not necessarily more humanistic than one that interests itself chiefly in the analysis of present tendencies. It becomes humanistic only when it is guided by the idea of human development. In short, it is not pure history, in the ordinary sense of the word, that is required for our present purpose, but rather the philosophy of history, conceived in some such spirit as that of Hegel or Comte. It may be noted that Professor Marshall, the leading representative of the purely analytical method of treatment, makes some use of this philosophical conception of history in the introduction to his Principles; but I think it may fairly be said that the attempt to study the development of human life on the economic side has not as yet been carried out with a systematic thoroughness at all comparable to that which has been applied either to mathematical analysis or to the investigation of historical details. Of this we need not complain. It is...
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