Excerpt from The Historic Role of France Among the Nations: An Address Delivered at the University of Chicago, October 18, 1904

It seems to me very probable that those who invited a historian and a professor of history to address you today expected him to make history his theme. Not, perhaps, that I should choose a topic from my own special field of study, which is too technical, but rather one of those large subjects which historians, whatever the nature of their investigations, are not at liberty to ignore - such subjects being the final end and justification of all historical investigation.

The philosophy of French history is surely a subject of this kind, for the ultimate object of all labor on the history of a nation is to determine that nation's present position and the direction in which it is moving.

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