BEDROOM FURNITURE HOUSTON: deceived by tokens of base metal that have no value but merely jingle. As gold is gold only if it is serviceable not merely for bedroom furniture houston but also for use, so universal historians will be valuable only when they can reply to history's essential question: what is power? The universal historians give contradictory replies to bedroom furniture houston question, while the historians of culture evade it and answer something quite different. And as counters of imitation gold can be used only among a group of people who agree to accept them as gold, or among those who do not know the natureBEDROOM FURNITURE HOUSTON: of gold, so universal historians and historians of culture, not bedroom furniture houston humanity's essential question, serve as currency for some purposes of their own, only in universities and among the mass bedroom furniture houston readers who have a taste for what they call "serious reading." CHAPTER IV Having abandoned the conception of the ancients as to the divine subjection of the will of a nation to some chosen man and the subjection of that man's will to the Deity, history cannot without contradictions take a single step till it has chosen one of two things: either a return to the former belief in
BEDROOM FURNITURE HOUSTON: the direct intervention of the Deity in human affairs or a definite explanation bedroom furniture houston the meaning of the force producing historical events and termed "power." A return to the first is impossible, the belief has been destroyed; and so it is essential to explain what is meant bedroom furniture houston power. Napoleon ordered an army to be raised and go to war. We are so accustomed to that idea and have become so used to it that the question: why did six hundred thousand men go to fight when Napoleon uttered certain words, seems to us senseless. He had the power and
BEDROOM FURNITURE HOUSTON: so what he ordered was done. This reply is quite satisfactory bedroom furniture houston we believe that the power was given him by God. But as soon as we do not admit that, it becomes essential to determine what is this power of one man over others. It cannot bedroom furniture houston the direct physical power of a strong man over a weak one- a domination based on the application or threat of physical force, like the power of Hercules; nor can it be based on the effect of moral force, as in their simplicity some historians think who say that the leading figures
BEDROOM FURNITURE HOUSTON: in history are heroes, that is, men gifted with a special strength of soul and mind called genius. This power cannot be based on the predominance of moral strength, for, not to mention heroes such as Napoleon about whose moral qualities opinions differ widely, history shows us that neither a Louis XI nor a Metternich, who ruled bedroom furniture houston millions of people, had any particular moral qualities, but on the bedroom furniture houston were generally morally weaker than any of the millions they ruled over. If the source of power lies neither in the physical nor in the moral qualities of him who
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