ABSTRACT
The history of historiography shows us concretely how the historian’s craft developed. Great historical events, such as the rise of Christianity or the French revolution, are characterized by special combinations of forces active in them. The comprehension of the system of interactions of history grows first of all from individual points at which remnants of the past belonging together are linked in understanding by their relation to experience; what is near and around us becomes a means of understanding what is distant and past. The mastering of historical material takes place in various stages which gradually penetrate into the depths of history. It becomes clear that the determination of the subject matter of a historical work involves a selection of events and connections. Each of the states of the civilized world and, above all, the nations developed on the basis of the natural divisions of mankind and the historical process, unites dynamic systems of culture within itself.
