The History of Humanity

The reconstruction of the past by non narrative stors led to a new kind of history and led to a renewed interest in the past. If one knows the way of the life of a people, one can conjecture what its laws are. Statutes and ordinances are the clear mirror of a nation's character. Natural law is no good because the only natural law we know is self preservation. That is true of all men everywhere but it isn't enough. What we have to know are the particular principles which apply in particular serton particular times to particular people. And then we have some inkling of what the world is like, what yuman beings are like, what life is like, and what