LECTURES

ON

MODERN HISTORY,

DELIVERED

IN OXFORD, 1859-61,

BY

GOLDWIN SMITH, M.A.,

REGIUS PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

PUBLIC

Oxford and London :

J. H. AND JAS. PARKER.

1861.

R.AH.

CONTENTS.

AN INAUGURAL LECTURE.

I., II.-ON THE STUDY OF HISTORY.

III. ON SOME SUPPOSED CONSEQUENCES OF THE DOCTRINE

OF HISTORICAL PROGRESS.

IV. ON THE FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN COLONIES.