In sum, it is clear that, through t

In sum, it is clear that, through the idea of uniform responses to given conditions, which idea was concretely implemented in the arguments of the speeches, the latter became for him an ideal medium for conveying the prognostic teachings of history. He used the war, so to speak, as a field of experiment to which the general laws of human response could be applied and by which the presumption of their truth could be established.