ABSTRACT
The aim of history the author believes, is to understand men both as individuals and in their social relationships in time. Social embraces all of man's activities – economic, religious, political, artistic, legal, military, scientific – everything, indeed, that affects the life of mankind. History began because scholars perceived a problem which faced no other civilization – the problem of the duality of Europe's past, its conflicting ideologies and of their different interpretations of human destiny. The study of history can, of course, and does extend human experience in a peculiarly vivid way, but so do literary studies, so should sociology or anthropology or the study of politics. History can teach all who are literate about the nature of social change; even to tell the mere story of social change would be a valuable educational process in itself and help to fulfil a need in present society of which we are all aware.
