The Science of Human Action.
Illuminate the activities of the mind!
We are never in a position to observe the change in one element only, all other conditions of the event remaining unchanged.
So how do humans understand perception, thought, emotions, motivation and learning?
History is the collection and systematic arrangement of all the data of experience concerning human action.
It deals with the concrete content of human action. It studies all human endeavors in their infinite multiplicity and variety and all individual actions with all their accidental, special and particular implications.
It scrutinizes the ideas guiding acting men and the outcome of the actions performed. I
It embraces every aspect of human activities.
There is ethnology and anthropology, as far as they are not a part of biology, and there is psychology as far as it is neither physiology nor epistemology nor philosophy.
There is linguistics as far as it is neither logic nor the physiology of speech.