We can define the social, political and economic factors that affect history. These factors make sense to us as both readers of history, and as students of mankind. History can be seen to flow from these three factors as vectors of change. So too, can we analyze the body, mind and spirit of man. Man delights in defining the course of history in tangible form.
Historians view vectors of change through the eyeglass of social, political and economic forces.
We are at once students of history as well as students of mankind. As we read history, so too, do we read the soul of man. We analysis the factors of change as we analyze men. The three dimensional notions of Body, Mind and Spirit relate depth, width and height to our concepts of man and his place in history. We triangularize the education of man, just as we study his history.