Add to ORKGThe range of topics this book seeks to cover is the subject of its introductory chapter. To sum the matter up in terms which are convenient if pretentious, Chapters 2-5 may be said to deal with question in the logic of historical thinking, whilst chapter 6-8 from a critical discussion of various attempts to arrive at a metaphysics, or metaphysical interpretation, of history. If any reader expresses surprise that matters so different should be treated in a single volume, I can meet him half way by admitting that I am consciuous of the incongruity my self though I do not feel so clear as I once did that the problems which are touched on in my final chapter are wholly irrelevant to those treated in the earlier part of the book