Harmsworth History of the World. E-book. Formato PDF J. A. Hammerton   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

It is impossible in private affairs to trace such distant causes of mere accidental events, of no apparent importance at the time; but in these great public results we see how continuous is the cause and its effects, and how impossible it is to get away from the results of acts which do not even depend on great or conscious decisions.