Having come to this conclusion, we can answer directly and positively those two essential questions of history: (1) What is power? (2) What force produces the movement of peoples? (1) Power is that relation of a certain person to other persons in which the person takes the less part in the action the more he expresses opinions, suppositions, and justifications for the jointly accomplished action. (2) The movement of peoples is produced, not by power, not by intellectual activity, not even by a combination of the two, as historians used to think, but by the activity of all the people taking
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