ABSTRACT
History is a study of the past of man. This study has two stages: (1) the ascertaining of facts on the basis of a critical and scientific investigation of the evidence left by the past and (2) the finding of correlations and interconnections among the facts thus established. The second stage of the study of history relates to the arrangement and classification of facts in such a way as to bring out the tendencies or directions that they exhibit in their unfolding. These tendencies and directions of facts are then compared and correlated to find if they follow some pattern or system capable of being formulated in terms of laws, theories and formulae. Such attempts constitute the philosophy of historv. For making such attempts it is necessary, first, to regard the phenomena of human development as real and substantial rather than as illusory and shadowy and, next, to treat the process of the unfolding of these phenomena as dynamic and fluxional.
