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Western Civilization Presents One Of The Most Difficult Tasks For Historical Analysis, Because It Is Not Yet Finished, Because We Are A Part Of It And Lack Perspective, And Because It Presents Considerable Variation From Our Pattern Of Historical Change.

The Very Idea That There Is Some Kind Of Conflict Between Science And Religion Is Completely Mistaken. Science Is A Method For Investigating Experience... Religion Is The Fundamental, Necessary Internalization Of Our System Of More Permanent Values.

I Am Now Quite Sure That Tragedy And Hope Was Suppressed Although I Do Not Know Why Or By Whom

The Argument That The Two Parties Should Represent Opposed Ideals And Policies, One, Perhaps, Of The Right And The Other Of The Left, Is A Foolish Idea Acceptable Only To Doctrinaire And Academic Thinkers. Instead, The Two Parties Should Be Almost Identical, So That The American People Can Throw The Rascals Out At Any Election Without Leading To Any Profound Or Extensive Shifts In Policy. Then It Should Be Possible To Replace It, Every Four Years If Necessary, By The Other Party, Which Will Be None Of These Things But Will Still Pursue, With New Vigor, Approximately The Same Basic Policies.

Even Today Few Scientists And Perhaps Even Fewer Nonscientists Realize That Science Is A Method And Nothing Else.