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HISTORY.

In the Historical Class the successions, revolutions and various
aspects of the principal nations of the world are considered
in such a manner as to afford a general view of the gradual and
ever enlarging progress of political and social organizations,
from the rude types of savage life to the complicated forms of
modern freedom. Institutions and laws are discussed as the
natural manifestations of the different phases of society; and

an attempt is made to discover and elucidate the conditions of
historical advancement, and to reduce the changes of nations
and governments to the operation of regular principles.

In the absence of appropriate text books, the following will
be employed for study and reference:

Schmitz's Manual of Ancient History; Smith's History of
Greece; [Schmitz's History of Rome]; Gibbon Abridged by
Smith; Guizot's History of Civilization; Taylor's Manual of
Modern History.

For reference: Long's Ancient Atlas; College Atlas; Blair's
Chronology, Bohn's edition.