#44 Historiae ipsius praeter delectationem utilitas nulla est, quam ut religionis Christianae veritas demonstretur, quod aliter quam per historian fieri non potest.--LEIBNIZ, Opera, ed. Dutens, vi. 297. The study of Modern History is, next to Theology itself, and only next in so far as Theology rests on a divine revelation, the most thoroughly religious training that the mind can receive. It is no paradox to say that Modern History, including Medieval History in the term, is coextensive in its field of view, in its habits of criticism, in the persons of its most famous students, with Ecclesiastical History.-- STUBBS, Lectures, 9. Je regarde donc l'etude de l'histoire comme l'etude de la providence. L'histoire est vraiment une seconde philosophy.--Si Dieu ne parle pas toujours, il agit toujours en Dieu. --D'AGUESSEAU, OEuvres, xv. 34, 31, 35. Fur diejenigen, welche das Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit erkannt haben, bildet die denkende Betrachtung der Weltgeschichte, besonders den christlichen Weltalters, die hochste, und umfassendste Theodicee.--VATKE, Die Menschliche Freiheit, 1841, 516. La theologie, que l'on regarde volontiers comme la plus etroite et la plus sterile den sciences, en est, au contraire, la plus etendue et la plus feconde. Elle confine a toutes les etudes et touche a toutes les questions. Elle renferme tous les elements d'une instruction liberale.--SCHERER, Melanges, 522. The belief that the course of events and the agency of man are subject to the laws of a divine order, which it is alike impossible for any one either fully to comprehend or effectually to resist--this belief is the ground of all our hope for the future destinies of mankind.--THIRLWALL, Remains, iii. 282. A true religion must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere philosophy; nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are the symbols, or out of which they are grounded; for then it would be mere history.--COLERIDGE, Table Talk, 144. It certainly appears strange that the men most conversant with the order of the visible universe should soonest suspect it empty of directing mind; and, on the other hand, that humanistic, moral and historical studies--which first open the terrible problems of suffering and grief, and contain all the reputed provocatives of denial and despair--should confirm, and enlarge rather than disturb, the prepossessions of natural piety.--MARTINEAU, Essays, i. 122. Die Religion hat nur dann eine Bedeutung fur den Menschen, wenn er in der Geschichte einen Punkt findet, den er sich vollig unbedingt hingeben kann.--STEFFENS, Christliche Religionsphilosophie, 440, 1839. Wir erkennen darin nur eine Thatigkeit den zu seinem achten und wahren Leben, zu seinem verlornen, objectiven Selbstverstandnisse sich zurecksehnenden christlichen Geistes unserer Zeit, einen Ausdruck fur das Bedurfniss desselben, sich aus den unwahren und unachten Verkleidungen, womit ihn