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Epilogue 2 Chapter 5（历史事件与个人权力的关系探讨）
THE LIFE of nations is not contained in the life of a few men, since the connection between those few men and the nations has not been found. — 国家的生活并不仅仅限于少数人的生活，因为那些少数人与国家之间的联系还未... -
Epilogue 2 Chapter 4（历史观与权力释义的探讨）
SINCE HISTORY has abandoned the views of the ancients as to the divine subjection of the will of a people to one chosen vessel, and the subjection of the will of that chosen vessel... -
Epilogue 2 Chapter 3（历史运动的驱动力探讨）
A STEAM-ENGINE moves. The question is asked, How is it moved? — 蒸汽机运动起来了。问题是，它是怎么动的？ — A peasant answers, It is the devil moving it. — 一个农民回答道，是魔鬼在推动它。 — Another man says, ... -
Epilogue 2 Chapter 2（历史观的多样性与矛盾：探讨推动国家发展的力量）
WHAT is the force that moves nations? 是什么动力推动着国家发展？ Biographical historians, and historians writing of separate nations, understand this force as a power residing in heroes and ... -
Epilogue 2 Chapter 1（历史观的演变与现代历史学的困境）
THE SUBJECT of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. — 历史的主题是人民和人类的生活。 — To catch and pin down in words—that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, b... -
Epilogue 1 Chapter 8（尼古拉与家庭：责任与情感的纠葛）
THE ONE THING that sometimes troubled Nikolay in his government of his serfs was his hasty temper and his old habit, acquired in the hussars, of making free use of his fists. — 尼古拉... -
Epilogue 1 Chapter 4（历史人物与国家命运的交织）
THE COMMOTION among the peoples begins to subside. — 人群中的骚动逐渐平息。 — The waves of the great tempest begin to abate, and eddies begin to be formed about the calmer surface where d... -
Epilogue 1 Chapter 3（拿破仑的兴衰与欧洲历史运动）
THE UNDERLYING ESSENTIALLY SIGNIFICANT FEATURE of the European events at the beginning of the present century is the military movement of masses of European peoples from west to ea... -
Epilogue 1 Chapter 2（历史中的偶然与天才：对历史现象的反思）
IF ONE ADMITS, as historians do, that great men lead humanity to the attainment of certain ends, such as the aggrandisement of Russia or of France, or the balance of power, or the ... -
Epilogue 1 Chapter 1（历史人物的评价与历史发展的复杂性）
SEVEN YEARS had passed by. The storm-tossed, historic ocean of Europe was subsiding within its shores. — 七年过去了。这个历史悠久的欧洲大海在其岸边平静下来。 — It seemed to have grown calm; but the myste...