War And Peace: Epilogue 1 - CHAPTER I

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SEVEN YEARS had passed by. The storm-tossed, historic ocean of Europe was

subsiding within its shores. It seemed to have grown calm; but the mysterious

forces moving humanity (mysterious, because the laws controlling their action

are unknown to us) were still at work.

Although the surface of the ocean of history seemed motionless, the movement

of humanity was as uninterrupted as the flow of time. Various series of groups

of men were joining together and separating; the causes were being prepared that

would bring about the formation and the dissolution of empires and the

migrations of peoples.

The ocean of history was not now, as before, tossed violently from one shore

to the other; it was seething in its depths. Historical figures were not dashing

abruptly from one side to the other; now they seemed to be rotating on the same

spot. The historical figures, that had in the preceding years at the head of

armies reflected the movement of the masses, commanding wars, and marches, and

battles, now reflected that movement in political and diplomatic combinations,

statutes, and treaties.

This tendency on the part of the figures of history, the historians call the

reaction.

In describing the part played by these historical personages, the historians

criticise them severely, supposing them to be the cause of what they call the

reaction. All the celebrated persons of that period, from Alexander and

Napoleon to Madame de Sta

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4. War And Peace: Epilogue 1 - CHAPTER V
5. War And Peace: Epilogue 1 - CHAPTER VI
6. War And Peace: Epilogue 1 - CHAPTER VII
7. War And Peace: Epilogue 1 - CHAPTER XIV
8. War And Peace: Epilogue 1 - CHAPTER IX
9. War And Peace: Epilogue 1 - CHAPTER X
10. War And Peace: Epilogue 1 - CHAPTER XI
11. War And Peace: Epilogue 1 - CHAPTER XII
12. War And Peace: Epilogue 1 - CHAPTER XVI
13. War And Peace: Epilogue 1 - CHAPTER III
14. War And Peace: Epilogue 2 - CHAPTER IV
15. War And Peace: Epilogue 2 - CHAPTER II
16. War And Peace: Epilogue 2 - CHAPTER III