CHAPTER XXI After the definite refusal he had received, Petya went to his room and there locked himself in and wept bitt...
onethatmakesitclearwhyThomasMannpraisedTolstoyforhisHomericpowersandplacedWarandPeaceinthesamecategoryastheIliad:"Toreadhim…istofindone'swayhome…toeverythingwithinusthatisfundamentalandsane."Epicinscale,WarandPeacedelineatesingraphicdetaileventsleadinguptoNapoleon'sinvasionofRussia,andtheimpactoftheNapoleonic...
and explain further why the wheels go round; and till he has reached the ultimate cause of the movement of the locomotive in the pressure of steam in the boiler, he has no right to stop in his search for the cause. The man who explains the movement of the locomotive by the smoke ...
peacewarSummary This chapter contains section titled: Notes ReferencesKurt A. RaaflaubBlackwell Publishing LtdRosenstein, N. (2007) 'War and Peace, Fear and Reconciliation at Rome', in K.A. Raaflaub (ed.), War and Peace in the Ancient World (Oxford): 226-244....
Chapter Two War and Peace How War and Peace (and Inflation) Impact the Market Without a doubt, the single most important enduring influence on the stock market is war. For … - Selection from The Little Book of Stock Market Cycles: How to Take Advantage
Summary This chapter contains section titled: Preliminaries Betanzos on Inca Warfare Sarmiento on Inca Warfare War, or Peace, at any Price Notes Documents and Publications ReferencesKurt A. RaaflaubBlackwell Publishing LtdWar and Peace in the Inca Heartland. In War and Peace in the Ancient World....
modern history has postulated its own aims—the welfare of the French, German, or English people, or, in its highest abstraction, the welfare and civilization of humanity in general, by which is usually meant that of the peoples occupying a small northwesterly portion of a large continent...
Only the expression of the will of the Deity, not dependent on time, can relate to a whole series of events occurring over a period of years or centuries, and only the Deity, independent of everything, can by His sole will determine the direction of humanity’s movement; but man acts ...
Chapter 3: War is Peace
on Tolstoy’s War And Peace: his ponderous and Messianic thinking was no better than many another evangelical professor of history and I learned from him to distrust my own Thinking with a capital T and to try to write truly, as straightly, as objectively and as humbly as possible. ...