History · Historical Method and Historiography
UGC NET June 2024 History (Cancelled)
Who stated, 'The craving for an interpretation of history is so deep-rooted that, unless we have a constructive outlook over the past, we are drawn either to mysticism or to cynicism'?
AJ. Huizinga
BF. Powicke ✓ Correct
CB. Russell
DJ.B. Bury
Correct answer: (B) F. Powicke — The answer is Sir F. Powicke.
Explanation
★The answer is Sir F. Powicke.
★He said the passion for interpreting history is so deep that without a creative view of the past one drifts to mysticism or cynicism.
★The historian J.B. Bury stressed the use of new methodology in interpreting the past.
★Bertrand Russell was a philosopher who wrote on ultimate questions of concepts.
★J. Huizinga was a Dutch cultural historian.
★So the remark on the craving for interpretation belongs to Powicke.
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