Heereby we learne, that men are regenerated and borne a-new by the Miniſtery of the Word to bee the Children of God, and Co[-]heires with Chriſt of eternall life, God working by the meanes of his word, and by the Miniſtery of his Seruants, whereby hee conueyeth it vnto vs, his Spirit being the powerfull Applyer, Bleſſer, and Effectour of this new-birth.

Rather than finding that thought disturbing, Clausewitz would suggest that any science of war that left nothing to chance would founder as the individual in history made the decisions that are the stuff of evenemential, or narrative, military history, of the action-reaction phenomena of organized social violence.

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[Y]our friend, John Edward, is at the other end of the room with his whole soul held in thrall by photographs of other people's relatives.