Engberg, Robert E.2013-02-192013-02-191967http://hdl.handle.net/1773/21142Paper manuscript originally submitted in 1967.It will be pointed out in this paper that Fred Morrow Fling was a product of his times, and that his assumptions and attitudes toward history were in many ways those of the scientific historians. In discussing his career I have tried to do what Fling himself attempted to do in his biography of Mirabeau: "I have tried." Fling wrote, "to avoid the role of the advocate and to attain to a strictly scientific point of view -- in so far as evidence permits it -- but to describe it sympathetically." I cannot claim success in being "scientific" if by that term is meant strict objectivity. It will be clear that 1 do not share Fling's a belief that the historian can be completely detached from his subject. I will not, however, argue with Fling on whether history is or is not a science; he believed it was and it is my purpose to suggest why he thought so, and to explain what the science of history meant to Fling.Copyright is held by the individual authors.Thesis