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Philosophy of History and Moral Philosophy adequately taken 12. Once more, the philosophy of history is no part of metaphysics, as Hegel believed. It pertains to moral philosophy, for it has to do with human actions con- sidered in the evolution of mankind. And here we have either to accept or to reject the data of Judeo-Christian revelation. If we accept them, we shall have to distinguish between two ordersâthe order of nature and the order of grace; and between two existential realms, distinct but not separateâthe world, on the one hand, and the Kingdom of God, the Church, on the other.
While the wear and tear of time and the passivity of matter naturally dissipate and degrade the things of this world and the energy of his- AXIOMATIC FORMULAS OR FUNCTIONAL LAWS 47 tory, the creative forces which are proper to the spirit and to liberty and which are their proof, and which nor- mally have their point of application in the effort of the few, constantly revitalize the quality of this energy. Thus the life of human societies advances and progresses at the cost of many losses. It advances and progresses thanks to the vitalization or superelevation of the energy of history springing from the spirit and from human free- dom.
3 he stresses the fact that the acceptance of timeâand of historyâfar from being matter-of-course for man, is for him a difficult and dearly paid achievement. Man is naturally frightened by the irreversibility of his own duration and the very newness of unpredictable events. 28 Paris, Gallimard, 1949. (Eng. : The Myth of the Eternal Return, Bollingen Series, Pantheon Books, 1954). THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY IN GENERAL 37 He refuses to face them. Hence the negation of time by archaic civilizations.