War and Peace: resumo de Part 2: Second Epilogue, Chapter 7

O que acontece

1. A group hauling a log illustrates how one person's expressed wish becomes identified as the command behind collective work.
2. The narrator argues that directing others involves less direct labor, while justifications remove moral responsibility for collective crimes.
3. A ship's advancing waves illustrate how something produced by movement can appear to direct it.
4. The narrator challenges historians who treat selected commands as causes rather than as dependent on events.
5. Power is defined through relationships, and national movement is attributed to the combined activity of everyone involved.
6. The argument ends by treating historical events as laws whose ultimate causes human reason cannot explain.

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