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not leave them to the incalculable chances of Book i 

 evolution. It may safely be said, no doubt, that, 

 let us study human conduct as we may, unintended, 

 or evolved phenomena will always continue to form 

 a large part of what we mean by social progress ; 

 but, as practical inquirers, we must put them on 

 one side, and confine our attention to those factors 

 in the problem which either embody some definite 

 human intention themselves, or on which we can 

 found, by studying them, some definite intention of 

 our own. And of such factors the chief is the great 

 man, whose importance is enhanced rather than 

 dwarfed by the fact that his intellect and his energy 

 are the causes not only of great results which he 

 intends, but also of those others wider, if not more 

 important which, though neither intended nor fore- 

 seen by himself or by anybody else, would, if it were 

 not for him, never take place at all. 



