Clint: Leibniz.

DaveO: I was actually more interested in the lectures in _War and Peace_ than in the story. Since I read it in highschool, the notion that nobody is in control has been, not an article of faith for me, but what statisticians call a null hypothesis. You think this happened because of one person's will? What's the evidence?

I do *not* follow Tolstoy in concluding that what is no man's will, but happens, must be God's.