War and Peace: resumen de Part 2: Second Epilogue, Chapter 5

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1. The narrator argues that no established connection makes the lives of a few leaders explain the lives of nations.
2. A comparison with a cattle herd exposes three kinds of historical explanation based on transferred collective will.
3. The narrator calls these explanations circular but insists that experience confirms power as a real phenomenon.
4. Examples of rulers issuing orders show a connection between commands and events, without proving that commands cause those events.
5. The argument defines power through commands and their execution, then identifies time and human relationships as necessary conditions for explanation.

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