Before the rise of the Atreides, histonans argued endlessl) wheth er great people made great events or great events made great people The impact on history of Muad Dib and the Emperor Leto renders the question moot but before those tremendous personalities, the question is legitimately raised We face the question specifically when we consider events as piv otal as those that occurred between 200 and 108 B G Did a vast sea-change in the human ocean produce Jehanne Butler (see BUTLER, JEHA.NNE) or did this remarka ble and luminescent woman by her will shift the currents of humanity'' Even the name we use for the period implies an answer to the question If we call those events The Butlenan Jihad ' we side with the histonans who define as ' great those individuals who move the mass of humankind in a new direction if we use the term The Great Revolt, we ally ourselves with those who see leaders as simply the front rank of a humanity moving in the direction the masses determine Histonans close to those events also specu BUTLERIAN JIHAD 142 BUTLERIAN JIHAD lated on this same question The writings of one of them, recently discovered, shows how that turning point was viewed m the calm immediately following it Kruwl Sheivvun (c 113-185) served as Imperial Historian under Saudir n In his major work, The Founding of the Empire, Sheivvun speculates on the Jihad, employing the metaphor of waves as affected by the tides At flow, each wave breaks and recedes, but the senes of waves creeps higher and higher on the beach until high tide u> reached Should someone wish to divert the waters of the high dde for human purposes, the task would be impossible during the ebb Likewise in human affairs, he argued A popular readiness for change is aimless without capable leadership; but the great leader without ready support