Sequences of natural events and the tale of human actions constitute 'History'. 'Sequences of natural events' include facts and phenomena relating to the sub-human. They are relatively stable and uniform, condensed for fairly long periods in the general rather than configured in the particulars of the passing hour. The History of Man, the tale of human actions though a part of nature had cut out for itself a claim to a distinct kind of treatment. Divergences apart, History is the concomitant of the dynamic element in the Universe by which the existing order continually changes in EVERY ASPECT of it yielding place to new. It is the sign of life, for life means activity and History is the story of such activity. When such activities and its details are recorded, remembered, reconstructed and retold, they become a present interpretation of a past experience. To a mind that has the capacity to think, the sequential narrative reveals consequential relations which transmute apprehension of historical facts into appreciation of their import and leads on to the appraisal of their value. In this process, a 'characteristic' becomes a 'character' and a cold fact acquires the warmth of a historical event possessing a glamorous glow responsively iridescent to the illuminating intellect.