�While it was not known it was not possible to do anything in this sense. All societies or nations that have been built through time in order to avoid war, have resulted to be inoperative. But knowing said law, knowing before hand what will happen, it is absurd to think that men would voluntarily launch themselves into a precipice being able to modify the trajectory. Today we know where we are and where we are going. Is it in the hands of man to deviate the helm and change the course? The transcendental operation of turning the destiny of the world, advises us to study the process and system to be followed to execute this change of course�. �At once a fundamental need arises:� to tone down the convulsions that entail the foreseen process; once this has been accomplished, the possibilities of totally modifying it can be considered. When he develops from infancy to old age, man does not follow a smooth and easy course, on the contrary, he, in fact, has to sustain a constant struggle in order to defend himself in the environment that surrounds him (climate, illnesses, survival). He has been improving in this struggle, that is, modifying his natural condition of life and greatly reducing natural difficulties. Housing and hygiene conditions to a great extent have lessened mortality and human suffering; medical progress tends to diminish pain. And if it has been this way, capable of eliminating collective calamities such as cholera and yellow fever, it is possible to conceive that the day will come when all illness will be eliminated and man will be able to go on with his life without these perturbances�. ����� �Nations, when they begin their evolutional cycle, follow a road of progress and creation, but this road is not smooth, on the contrary, in order to progress they need to sustain a constant struggle against themselves. Extinct institutions do not disappear if it were not for violence. Exhausted regimes do not resign themselves to be voluntarily substituted and fight to the death to persist. Nations in full growth, if they want to extend themselves, have to forcibly drown decadent empires. Decrepit institutions, due to their instinct of conservation and because they think that by fighting they can lengthen their time, resist disappearing�. �But institutions and their men, if they knew the fate that awaited them in the struggle before hand, would stop fighting if they knew they were going to be defeated. As soon as they knew of the catastrophes that would be produced and their results, the nations of the world should suppress wars. Will men abolish calamities in the same manner as violence has been abolished from individual combat and taking justice by one�s own hand be replaced by the creation of courts of justice?� So man improves mentally and spiritually in order to have a better life, is our greatest desire when we pose bellicose subjects.� THE MATHEMATICS OF HISTORY