INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER Ⅰ：History，Men，and Time

1．The Choice of the Historian

2．History and Men

3．Historical Time

4．The Idol of Origins

5．The Boundaries between Past and Present

6．Understanding the Present by the Past

7．Understanding the Past by the Present

CHAPTER Ⅱ：Historical Observation

1．General Characteristics of Historical Observation

2．Evidence

3．The Transmission of Evidence

CHAPTER Ⅲ：Historical Criticism

1．An Outline of the History of the Critical Method

2．In Pursuit of Fraud and Error

3．Toward a Logic of the Critical Method

CHAPTER Ⅳ：Historical Analysis

1．Judging or Understanding？

2．From the Diversity of Human Functions to the Unity of Consciences

3．Nomenclature

CHAPTER Ⅴ：Historical Causation