Man is the hero of this poetical work. The whole universe is its background. The content is the story of man neither dares nor names have anything to do with the story. The profiles of Christ, Asoka, Socrates, Buddha, Lincoln, Lenin, Marx, Gandhi and other find a place in it, but not with their names. The outstanding principles enunciated by these great people are the poetical symbols which bring them back to our memory. successive chapters in this book unfold the journey of man right from the primitive period to the modern times.