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He convinced his followers they were taking part in an adventure, a pageant, an experiment and a story whose sheer splendour would draw the attention of posterity for centuries. He was able to impart to ordinary people the sense that their lives—and, if necessary, their deaths in battle—mattered in the context of great events.
you make war, employ severity and activity; it is the only means by which you make it shorter, and consequently less deplorable for humanity.’
Society is impossible without inequality; inequality intolerable without a code of morality, and a code of morality unacceptable without religion.’
