"It is natural that the philosophy of history should follow a development line parallel to that of history. Where historical knowledge exists only in a disorderly and casual way, there will only be a philosophy of tosca and intrascendent history. Where historical knowledge is something that possesses a high organization, which involves its own technique and an awareness of its own particular purposes and methods, the philosophy of history will constitute a unitary and defined philosophical science whose importance for philosophy as soon as it will correspond more or less to the Importance of history in human thought as a whole.

With this key we can return to the past and describe the way in which the philosophy of history has been developing Parí Passu to the development of history. "