reasoner. Yet he must possess sufficient self-commend to abstain from casting his facts in the mould of his hypothesis.
It may be laid down as a general rule, though subject to considerable qualifications and exceptions, that history begins in novel and ends in essay.
J.T. Buckle would find that history is a science, and he believed that history was something that could be perceived best by the mind rather than by the senses. He related history to the natural sciences in that the study of history required a knowledge of and application of the laws of natural science. J.B. Bury is even more explicit about the idea that history is a science, and he finds that this is a relatively new element in the world, noting that prior to the previous century, history was not a science except in a few isolated cases. What was needed to make history a science was a new method of ascertaining the truth and a new transfiguring conception of the scope and limits of history. History became a science becaus
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