My own conclusion is that history is simply social development along the lines of weakest resistance, and that in most cases the line of weakest resistance is found as unconsciously by society as by water.
As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.
History is only a value of relation.
Politics is simply the organization of hatreds.
Intimates are predestined.
For after all man knows mighty little, and may some day learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down again and pray. Not that Icare. Only, if such is God's will, and Fate and Evolution--let there be God!