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Ancient Greek philosophy was divided into three sciences: physics, ethics, and logic. This division is perfectly suitable to the nature of the thing; and the only improvement that can be made in it is to add the principle on which it is based, so that we may both satisfy ourselves of its completeness, and also be able to determine correctly the necessary subdivisions. All rational knowledge is either material or formal: the former considers some object, the latter is concerned only with the form of the understanding and of the reason itself, and with the universal laws of thought in general without distinction of its objects | Jewish History 1 Jewish History The Project Gutenberg EBook of Jewish History by S. M. Dubnow Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook. This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project Gutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do not change or edit the header without written permission. Please read the legal small print and other information about the eBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included is important information about your specific rights and restrictions in how the file may be used. You can also find out about how to make a donation to Project Gutenberg and how to get involved. Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers Since 1971 These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers Title Jewish History Author S. M. Dubnow Release Date April 2005 EBook 7836 This file was first posted on May 21 2003 Edition 10 Language English Character set encoding ISO Latin-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JEWISH HISTORY David King Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team JEWISH HISTORY AN ESSAY IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY BY S. M. DUBNOW PREFACE TO THE GERMAN TRANSLATION The author of the present essay S. M. Dubnow occupies a well-nigh dominating position in Russian-Jewish literature as an historian and an acute critic. His investigations into the history of the Polish-Russian Jews especially his achievements in the history of Chassidism have been of fundamental importance in these departments. What raises Mr. Dubnow far above the status of the professional historian and awakens the reader s lively interest in him is not so much the matter of his books as the manner of presentation. It is rare Jewish History 2 to meet with an historian in whom scientific objectivity and thoroughness are so harmoniously .