Writers of universal history, who deal with all the nations, seem to recognise how erroneous is the specialist historians’ view, of the force which produces events. They do not recognise it as a power inherent in heroes and rulers but as the resultant of a multiplicity of variously directed forces. In describing a war, or the subjugation of a people, a general historian looks for the cause of the event not in the power of one man, but in the interaction of many persons connected with the event.
