Page "Friedrich Christoph Schlosser" Paragraph 6

Schlosser stands apart from the movement towards scientific history in Germany in the 19th century.

Refusing to limit himself to political history, as did Leopold von Ranke, he never learned to handle his literary sources with the care of the scientific historian.

History was to him, as it had been to Cicero, a school for morals ; but he had perhaps a juster conception than Ranke of the breadth and scope of the historian's field.