 | graf Leo Tolstoy - 1904 - 516 pagine
...justifications of the combined action. 2. The movement of peoples is not produced by the exercise of power; nor by intellectual activity, nor even by a combination...historians have supposed ; but by the activity of all the men taking part in the event, who are always combined in such a way that those who take most direct... | |
 | Gerhard Falk, Clifford Falk - 1990 - 308 pagine
...determine the outcome of history. "The movement of nations," says Tolstoy, "is caused not by power, nor by intellectual activity nor even by a combination...have supposed, but by the activity of all the people who participate in the events .... Morally the wielder of power appears to cause the event; physically... | |
 | Walter Watson - 1993 - 228 pagine
...as the activity of all the people who participate: "The movement of nations is caused not by power, nor by intellectual activity, nor even by a combination...have supposed, but by the activity of all the people who participate in the events." 112 These people all follow their own purposes, but in so doing they... | |
 | Angela Brew - 2001 - 228 pagine
...with the event all acting as autonomous individuals. "The movement of nations is caused not by power, nor by intellectual activity, nor even by a combination...have supposed, but by the activity of all the people who participate in the event' (Tolstoy 1978: 1425). The further we are removed from the event the more... | |
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The movement of nations is caused' not by power, nor by intellectual activity, nor even, by a combination of the two as historians have supposed, but by the activity of all the people who participate in the events... 