The Meaning of History Bourke is humanity’s susceptibility to the

is humanity’s susceptibility to the fickle dictates of ideology and its inscrutable capacity for brutality

Famous for his novels Under the Sun of Satan

Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline

Notable for his effective expository preaching

The Meaning of History Bourke is humanity’s susceptibility to theBy Henri Irne Marrou A spirited effort to free history and historians from a positivism induced torpor, The Meaning of History offers a stirring rebuke to the gnostic, propagandistic, or technocratic tendencies of modern historical methods. The real historian, Henri Irne Marrou asserts, is aware of his finitude and accepts with simplicity the fact that he is not God, and thus acquires a keen sense of the complexity of being and of the situations of