Theseare the Lectures referred to in the last paragraphof the Preface to the course on the “Methods of HistoricalStudy,” lately published. I have added to them the secondof two articles which appeared in the ContemporaryReview for 1884. The former of them, “Some NeglectedPeriods of European History,” I have not reprinted, as itssubstance will be found in the present course. The second,“Greek Cities under Roman Rule,” as dealing somewhatmore in detail with some points which are barely glancedat in the present course, seemed to make a fitting Appendixto it.

I find that the same thought as to the political resultof modern scientific inventions which is brought out atpp. 184, 185 of these Lectures is also brought out in theLecture at Edinburgh, reprinted in my little book “GreaterGreece and Greater Britain,” published last May. Thiskind of thing is always likely to happen in lectures givenin different places. It seemed to me that the thoughtcame naturally in both lectures, and that either wouldlose something by its being struck out. As for those whomay be so unlucky as to read both, I can only say that[Pg vi]a thought which is worth suggesting once is worth suggestingtwice. At least I have often found it so in thewritings of others, specially in those of Mr. Grote.

The two courses of Oxford lectures which have nowbeen printed are both introductory. In this presentcourse the division into periods which is attempted is, onthe face of it, only one among many which might be made.Another man might divide on some principle altogetherdifferent; I might myself divide on some other principlein another course of lectures. My present object was toset forth as strongly as possible, at the beginning of myteaching here, the main outlines of European history, asgrouped round its central point, the Roman power. Themain periods suggested by such a view of things are thosewhich concern the growth and the dying-out of that power—Europebef

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