Holy History of Mankind (Die heilige Geschichte der Menschheit) is a book by the philosopher Moses Hess.
This was among Hess’s earliest works, published in 1837, and in it he foresees a future socialistic Europe, drawing its inspiration from the initial Jewish commonwealth in which politics was subservient to ethical precepts.
Christ disjoints the harmony, but the disjuncture does not reach its climax until the Middle Ages, which laid the inevitable foundations for the appearance of private property in modern society.
Influenced heavily by Spinoza, Hess points out that the French Revolution lays the way for the retrieval of the original social unity.
Hess expresses the hope that the change would come about through peaceful means, but feared otherwise because of the ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor.