If we assume as the historians do that great men lead humanity to the attainment of certain ends -- the greatness of Russia or of France, the balance of power in Europe, the diffusion of the ideas of the Revolution, general progress, or anything else -- then it is impossible to explain the facts of history without introducing the conceptions of chance and genius.

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