...the historian in me, she can't resist...

"If we are to accept, as Doyle here invites us to do, that the shape of the revolution was determined by accidents, then we are to accept not simply that the outcome was fundamentally random but also that the event is its own explanation. That runs the risk of becoming eventually an argument akin to 'what happens, happens because it happens.'" -Colin Lucas

Now see... no matter how right a philosophy of "what happens, happens" may be, a historian can never put forth that argument for the simple fact that if we did, we would be out of a job. hehehehe...