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Excerpt from Studies in Greek and Roman History: Or, Studies in General History From 100 B. C. To 476 A. D To The Student: - How, then, is history made? If a man wanted to write the history of England, and no one before had ever attempted it, so that no books existed from which he could read it, how would he go to work to find it out? He would go to the "original sources," as people say; that is, he would go to London, to Oxford and Cambridge, and hunt through offices, libraries, and museums for all the old records, despatches, and letters, for reports of parliamentary debates, for the manuscripts of the old chroniclers, for copies of treaties and laws; and from all these things he could find what had been the government of England, what powers she had, from time to time, given to her king, her parliament, and the general mass of her people; what classes of society were recognized by law, and how each class was regarded by the government and by other classes. He would discover what affairs of national importance had happened, what had been the wars of England, and what she had deemed worth fighting for; what nations she had been connected with, and in what relations. And as he went along, he would note down all these things as material for his history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.