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the dependence of national destiny on the character of the surroundings, that explain why so many things in the history of the world seem to be accidental, strange, and sudden. In reality, these accidents in the phenomena of national rise and fall, as well as the variations of national character, are regulated by laws and are interconnected as causes and effects, whether remote or direct, both in space and time.