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Chapter 5

           Thatis,powerispower:inotherwords,powerisawordthemeaningofwhichwedonotunderstand.

           Iftherealmofhumanknowledgewereconfinedtoabstractreasoning,thenhavingsubjectedtocriticismtheexplanationof“power”thatjuridicalsciencegivesus,humanitywouldconcludethatpowerismerelyawordandhasnorealexistence.Buttounderstandphenomenamanhas,besidesabstractreasoning,experiencebywhichheverifieshisreflections.Andexperiencetellsusthatpowerisnotmerelyawordbutanactuallyexistingphenomenon.

           Nottospeakofthefactthatnodescriptionofthecollectiveactivityofmencandowithouttheconceptionofpower,theexistenceofpowerisprovedbothbyhistoryandbyobservingcontemporaryevents.

           Wheneveraneventoccursamanappearsormenappear,bywhosewilltheeventseemstohavetakenplace.NapoleonIIIissuesadecreeandtheFrenchgotoMexico.TheKingofPrussiaandBismarckissuedecreesandanarmyentersBohemia.NapoleonIissuesadecreeandanarmyentersRussia.AlexanderIgivesacommandandtheFrenchsubmittotheBourbons.Experienceshowsusthatwhatevereventoccursitisalwaysrelatedtothewillofoneorofseveralmenwhohavedecreedit.

           Thehistorians,inaccordwiththeoldhabitofacknowledgingdivineinterventioninhumanaffairs,wanttoseethecauseofeventsintheexpressionofthewillofsomeoneendowedwithpower,butthatsuppositionisnotconfirmedeitherbyreasonorbyexperience.

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