ABSTRACT
This chapter explains that the main problems of the history teacher is how to bring the past to life and to give his pupils some understanding of the way people thought and acted in ages outside and unlike their own. The historian as part of his task, must make the human past intelligible and significant. His reconstruction of past events will be different from that of the mere chronicler, for he is dealing with a different product. The concept of colligation performs a valuable service of clarification and organization to both the historian and teacher. The chapter reviews that human actions are rendered intelligible by seeing them as expressions of important processes operative at the time. It may be profitable to follow up the specific example mentioned by Walsh. Within the context of this the Industrial Revolution is considered as an example of the colligatory process Walsh has in mind.
