| Preface to All Volumes | |
| Editorial Note to Volume IV | |
| Introduction to Volume IV | 3 |
| 1 | Schleiermacher's Hermeneutical System in Relation to Earlier Protestant Hermeneutics (1860) | 33 |
| 2 | On Understanding and Hermeneutics: Student Lecture Notes (1867-68) | 229 |
| 3 | The Rise of Hermeneutics (1900) | 235 |
| 4 | History and Science (1962); On H. T. Buckle's, History of Civilization in England | 261 |
| 5 | On Jacob Burckhardt's The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1862) | 271 |
| 6 | Friedrich Christoph Schlosser and the Problem of Universal History (1862) | 279 |
| 7 | The Eighteenth Century and the Historical World (1901) | 325 |
| 8 | Reminiscences on Historical Studies at the University of Berlin (1903) | 387 |
| Glossary | 391 |
| Index | 399 |