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CORCORAN SCHOOL OF HISTORICAL SCIENCE.

SCIENCE OF SOCIETY.

Professor Holmes.

In this class there are two courses each extending over a half session.

Political Economy.—In the treatment of this department of knowledge,
there is no rigid adherence to the school of Smith, Ricardo, and Mill.
The modification of older doctrines, necessitated by the increase of productive
inventions and productive operations, is steadily regarded. Attention
is paid to the inquiries and criticisms of Thornton, Cairnes, Jevons,
etc.; and the altered views propounded by Laveleye, Walker, and the school
of the Cathedrists are duly considered.

Text books.—Walker's Political Economy (advanced course); Mill's Political Economy
(abridged).

Science of Society.—The latter half of the course in this class is
devoted to the Science of Society.

In this is prosecuted the investigation of the laws and movements, the
growth, decay, and constitution of Societies, in the different phaes and stages
of social development. The necessary organic functions of Society are
studied in their several forms. They are also regarded in their reciprocal
relations and in their conjoint action in successive forms of civilization. All
systems are interpreted; no ideal constitution is contemplated. The course
is descriptive of processes by which experienced results have been obtained,
not speculative in advocacy of theoretic dreams.

The Class is dependent on notes for the Lecture, as no text book exists.

GENERAL HISTORY.

Adjunct Professor Dabney.

Stress is laid on the view that the career of man, as revealed in History, is
not a mere jumble of disconnected dates and facts, but a continuous stream,
having its sources and tributaries in the far-off past, its outlet in the remote
future. No attempt is made, however, to traverse in the class-room the
entire length of this stream; for, although constant efforts are made to impress
the vital connection of nation with nation, of generation with generation,
and of anterior with ensuing conditions of historical development, the
lectures are confined to the more important periods, the student being
required to fill the gaps by private reading in a manual of General History.
The periods, and, therefore, the text books, studied, will be more or less varied
each year. Three lectures a week.

Text-books for '89-'90—Fisher's Outlins f Universal Hitory; Coxs Athenin Empire;
Ihne's Early Rome; Beesly's Gracch, Mrius and Sulla; Capes's Early Empire; Church's
Beginning of the Middle Ages; Cox's Crusades; Sbohm' Era of the Prtetant Revolution;
Gardiner's Thirty Years' War; Dabne's Caues of the French Revoluton; Morris's
French Revolution and First Empire.