To recognize this clearly is enough to drive a man out of his senses or to make him shoot himself. And this is just what does happen, and especially often among military men. A man need only come to himself for an instant to be impelled inevitably to such an end.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "To recognize this clearly is enough to drive a man out of his senses or to make him shoot himself. And this is just what does happen, and especially often among military men. A man need only come to himself for an instant to be impelled inevitably to such an end." in the context of "Chapter V, Contradiction Between our Life and our Christian Conscience" to mean that wisdom is timeless.