(b) What is the object of history?

(b) What is the object of history? One science differs from another in that it finds out things of a different kind. What kinds of things does history find out? I answer, res gestae: actions of human beings that have been done in the past. Although this answer raises all kinds of further questions
Many of which are controversial, still, however they may be answered, and the answers do not discredit the proposition that history is the science of res gestae, the attempt to answer questions about human actions done in the past.


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(b) What is the object of history? One science differs from another in that it finds out things of a different kind. What kinds of things does history find out? I answer, res gestae: actions of human beings that have been done in the past. Although this answer raises all kinds of further questions Many of which are controversial, still, however they may be answered, and the answers do not discredit the proposition that history is the science of res gestae, the attempt to answer questions about human actions done in the past. The purpose of the study of history.