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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; Hume's History of
England, abridged.

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