Civilization Originates In Conquest Abroad And Repression

When You Have Seen The Errors In Which You Live, You Will Understand The Good That We Have Done You By Coming To Your Land By Order Of His Majesty The King Of Spain. Our Lord Permitted That Your Pride Should Be Brought Low And That No Indian Should Be Able To Offend A Christian.

Bird Taxonomy Is A Difficult Field Because Of The Severe Anatomical Constraints Imposed By Flight. There Are Only So Many Ways To Design A Bird Capable, Say, Of Catching Insects In Mid-air, With The Result That Birds Of Similar Habitats Tend To Have Very Similar Anatomies, Whatever Their Ancestry. For Example, American Vultures Look And Behave Much Like Old World Vultures, But Biologists Have Come To Realize That The Former Are Related To Storks, The Latter To Hawks, And That Their Resemblances Result From Their Common Lifestyle.

African Cavalry Mounted On Rhinos Or Hippos Would Have Made Mincemeat Of European Cavalry Mounted On Horses. But It Couldnt Happen.

With The Macarthur Grant, I Realized That People Have High Expectations Of Me, That They Were Placing Me In This Group Of Achievers. I Compared What Id Actually Achieved In My Life With What I Would Like To Achieve And What Other People Have Achieved, And I Found That Comparison Depressing.

Take Air Quality In The United States Today: It's About 30 Percent Better Than It Was 25 Years Ago, Even Though There Are Now More People Driving More Cars.