| War and Peace: Book Thirteen Contributor(s): Maude, Louise (Translator), Maude, Aylmer (Translator), Tolstoy, Leo (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798674483786 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $6.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Russian & Former Soviet Union - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: 891.733 |
| Physical Information: 0.22" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.32 lbs) 90 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Man‟s mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find those causes is implanted in man‟s soul. And without considering the multiplicity and complexity of the conditions any one of which taken separately may seem to be the cause, he snatches at the first ap-proximation to a cause that seems to him intelli-gible and says: "This is the cause " In historical events (where the actions of men are the subject of observation) the first and most primitive ap-proximation to present itself was the will of the gods and, after that, the will of those who stood in the most prominent position-the heroes of history. But we need only penetrate to the essence of any historic event-which lies in the activity of the general mass of men who take part in it-to be convinced that the will of the historic hero does not control the actions of the mass but is it-self continually controlled." |