translate English to French: But if most of them only have their model in the historian's imagination, are you not falling into the very problem you wanted to avoid, and surrendering to the authority of the historian what you would not yield to the authority of the teacher? If my pupil is merely to see fantasy pictures, I would rather draw them myself.
La guerre ne fait guère que manifester des événements déjà déterminés par des causes morales que les historiens savent rarement voir.