Excerpt from Outline of the Principles of History: Grundriss Der Historik Lectures upon the Encyclopedia and Methodology of History which I delivered from time to time, begin ning'with 1857, led me to write out the skeleton of the Same in order to give my auditors a basis for my oral amplification. In this way, as manuscript, first in 1858 and then again in 1862, the following Outline was printed. Numerous requests, some of them from foreign lands, determined me, when the little volume had to be printed anew, to give it to the public. Hin drances and scruples of many kinds have delayed the publication until now, when at last, according to my provisional judgment at any rate, the work is ripe. 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.