The historical method
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historical method · the historical method · Historical Method · historical criticism · historical inquiry · historical spirit
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
An approach to knowledge emphasizing historical development, named as one of the forces undermining Benthamite authority.
Among these traits he will certainly note the increasing freedom of discussion and the disintegration of beliefs, that increasing importance given to the emotional side of human nature which has been called the apotheosis of instinct, and the growth of the historical method.
An historical inquirer again has, as such, no reason for disliking an abuse.
the historical method has fostered a spirit foreign to the ideas of Benthamite philosophy.
Ancient Law
Maine's preferred mode of inquiry into institutions, grounded in actual historical development rather than a priori assumptions.
I believe, as I have said, that it is still the great antagonist of the Historical Method;
Bearing in some exaggerations the marks of the excessive violence with which its author’s mind had recoiled from assumptions usually suffered to pass without scrutiny, yet showing in some ambiguities the traces of a desire to compromise with existing prejudice, the book of Montesquieu, with all its defects, still proceeded on that Historical Method before which the Law of Nature has never maintain …