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Chapter 11

           

           Thediscussionscontinuedalongtime,andthelongertheylastedthemoreheatedbecamethedisputes,culminatinginshoutsandpersonalities,andthelesswasitpossibletoarriveatanygeneralconclusionfromallthathadbeensaid.PrinceAndrew,listeningtothispolyglottalkandtothesesurmises,plans,refutations,andshouts,feltnothingbutamazementatwhattheyweresaying.Athoughtthathadlongsinceandoftenoccurredtohimduringhismilitaryactivities—theideathatthereisnotandcannotbeanyscienceofwar,andthatthereforetherecanbenosuchthingasamilitarygenius—nowappearedtohimanobvioustruth.“Whattheoryandscienceispossibleaboutamattertheconditionsandcircumstancesofwhichareunknownandcannotbedefined,especiallywhenthestrengthoftheactingforcescannotbeascertained?Noonewasorisabletoforeseeinwhatconditionourortheenemy’sarmieswillbeinaday’stime,andnoonecangaugetheforceofthisorthatdetachment.Sometimes—whenthereisnotacowardatthefronttoshout,‘Wearecutoff!’andstartrunning,butabraveandjollyladwhoshouts,‘Hurrah!’—adetachmentoffivethousandisworththirtythousand,asatSchönGrabern,whileattimesfiftythousandrunfromeightthousand,asatAusterlitz.

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