A Gathering Tumult
All of history does not appear in action, or in public records. Much of it, and that often the most revealing and significant is not what appears in ... , speeches, reports, and blue books. It is ideas, personal pleas, and visions, unspoken motives, which largely drive the wheels of action; and unless they are duly taken into account the story that results is one-sided and only partly true. [1]
Jan Smuts circa 1914
Violence rarely, if ever, exists in ...