ABSTRACT
The study of history in its highest form involves the recognition that the facts of the past are infinite in number, and that the meaning of the past is therefore capable of an infinite degree of reconstruction as powers of interpretation increase. The serious student of history must learn as his primary duty to question all conventional views and values. The market is being flooded with school-books on the social and industrial history of England. The history thus written and taught is, in effect, European history, and had better be taught as such, to the enlargement of the pupil’s mind, instead of being set forth as specifically English. The history of civilization, world history in the only sense in which it has a unity and can be taught, is the history of the development of human community—of the development toward a worldwide community of mankind.
