The historical sciences have made us be very concious of our past they made us conscious of the world as a machine. The machine generates succeszive events out of foregoing ones. Some scholars tend to look totally backward. They look backward in their interpretation of the human future

Some one drawing water and my theater placed my hand under the spout. as the cool stream gushed over one hand she spelled into the other the word water , first slowly , then rapidly . i stood still ,my whole attention fixed upon the motions of her fingers . suddenly i felt misty consciousness as of soothing forgotten --a thrill of returning thought and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me this passage from the stoyof my life is an wxample of which element of plotclimax action