Excerpt from History as Past Ethics: An Introduction to the History of MoralsProfessor Freeman defined history as past politics. Mr. Buckle argued that the essence of the historical evolution con sists in intellectual progress.l Many present-day economists hold that the dominant forces in the historical development are economic.2 Churchmen consistently make the chief factor in history to be religion.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.