The Meaning of History Bourke (1863–1948) was a French Dominican

(1863–1948) was a French Dominican priest

He was not merely irascible—he was cruel

Famous for his novels Under the Sun of Satan

describes the faculties according to their natures and operations

The Meaning of History Bourke (1863–1948) was a French DominicanBy 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