Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?
Enough organization, enough lists and we think we can control the uncontrollable.