This book is a study of previously unavailable material from the 1930s on the subject of history by Bernard Lonergan. This study slowly spirals through a group of early manuscripts by Lonergan, returning again and again to the significant benchmarks that constitute Longergan's notion of the dialectic of history. Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Foundations; Part II: The Dialectic of History; Part III: The Order and Dating of the Manuscripts; Part IV: Documents of Batch A; Part V: Documents of Batch B; Part VI: Development in the Notion of the Dialectic of History: 1933-1938; Epilogue; Tables; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index of Names.