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Hesitations
- The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.
- We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities.
- Since man is a moment in astronomic time, a transient guest of the earth, a spore of his species, a scion of his race, a composite of body, character, and mind, a member of a family and a community, a believer or doubter of a faith, a unit in an economy, perhaps a citizen in a state or a soldier in an army, we may ask under the corresponding heads—astronomy, geology, geography, biology, ethnology, psychology, morality, religion, economics, politics, and war—what history has to say about the nature, conduct, and prospects of man.
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Biology & History
- History is a fragment of biology: the life of man is a portion of the vicissitudes of organisms on land and sea.
- We are subject to the processes and trials of evolution, to the struggle for existence and the survival of the fittest to survive.
- So the first biological lesson o...
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Religion & History
- Nature and history do not agree with our conceptions of good and bad; they define good as that which survives, and bad as that which goes under.
- Religion does not seem at first to have had any connection with morals. It was fear that first made the gods. Only when priests used these ...
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Character & History
- Society is founded not on the ideals but on the nature of man, and the constitution of man rewrites the constitutions of states.
- Human beings are normally equipped by “nature” with positive and negative instincts, whose function it is to preserve the individual, the family, the group...
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Government & History
- Since men love freedom, and the freedom of individuals in society requires some regulation of conduct, the first condition of freedom is its limitation; make it absolute and it dies in chaos. So the prime task of government is to establish order; organized central force is the sole alternati...
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History & The Earth
- Human history is a brief spot in space, and its first lesson is modesty.
- History is subject to geology.
- Climate no longer controls us but it limits us.
- Geography is the matrix of history, its nourishing mother and disciplining home.
- The influence of geographi...
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Economics & History
- All economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive recirculation.
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History & War
- War is one of the constants of History and has not diminished with civilization or democracy. “Polemos pater panton” said Heracleitus; war, or competition, is the father of all things, the potent source of ideas, inventions, institutions, and states.
- Peace is an unstable equilibrium,...
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