Interpretation of Human History

WHAT IS HISTORY? He has given full freedom to man and is simultaneously keeping watch over the human caravan so that it may not deviate too far from the straight path. W hat is history? History is another name for chronicles of the past. Books written on the subject of history are usually a record of past events. However, there is an additional subject of history which is called the ‘philosophy of history’ or the ‘interpretation of history’. The purpose of this topic is to explain the different events of human history and discover an understandable link between them. There are myriad books available on historiography or the study of the writing of history but as far as interpretation is concerned, there is no book on the subject that can be considered a comprehensible explanation of history. Dr Alexis Carrel has rightly stated in his book, Man the Unknown, that the subject of the interpretation of history is directly related to man’s freedom. Since man