---
title: 'The Aim of History'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'James Clement Moffat'
date: 1857-04-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'History (General)'
- 'Revelation (General and Special Revelation)'
scriptures:
- 'Romans 15'
- 'Ecclesiastes 3'
- 'Psalms 90'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/moffat-1857-the-aim-of-history
---

# The Aim of History

Argues that history's aim is to trace human progress and serve as moral instruction, linking historical method to divine revelation and showing how the past shapes the present.

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