Negative Interpretation of History

NEGATIVE INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY The truth of the matter is that the human world is far more beautiful than the rest of the world. S cholars generally have a negative outlook of human history. For instance, Edward Gibbon, as we have seen, once observed that “the history of humanity is little more than a register of crimes, follies, and misfortunes”. Similarly, the great novels produced in various languages of the world are mostly tragedies, rather than comedies. Why is there such a negative perception of human history? The reason is that these scholars did not follow the right method of studying history. The right method of studying history entails first discovering the creator’s map of history, followed by looking at and examining history in the light of that divine map. Scholars want to understand history in the light of their own hypothetical map, so they develop negative