How am I supposed to unmake the world 's biggest mistake.
Amongst the elements of our thought there are some which we can make and unmake at our pleasure; there are others which come and go without our wish; there is also a third class which is of the very essence of our thinking, and which dominates our conceptions.
Such was the power of Adalbero and Gerbert in those days that it was said their influence alone sufficed to make and unmake kings.
He left nothing in doubt if experiment would decide it, and he evidently did not consider that he had fully investigated any compound until he could both unmake and remake it.
Accordingly it could make or unmake emperors in crises - at the accession of Claudius in A.D.