ABSTRACT
History is, of course, a moving river, flowing from the past into the present, and on into the future. Personal biography, which includes details of family and of surrounding political, religious, social, economic and geographic factors, creates the intellectual laboratory in which a person works. Research in one’s field provide the intellectual and epistemological framework. The work of the Greeks expressed the values of beauty, proportion and harmony. The Romans’ work expressed the values of practicality and empire building. Creative output in the middle Ages was based in values of religious faith, and then the gradual awakening of a spirit of scientific inquiry decoupled from faith. Renaissance work expressed the new value of humanism.
