History Had A Slow Pulse; Man Counted

Scientists Are Peeping Toms At The Keyhole Of Eternity.

The Discoveries Of Yesterday Are The Truisms Of Tomorrow, Because We Can Add To Our Knowledge But Cannot Subtract From It.

All "if" Statements About The Past Are As Dubious As Prophecies Of The Future Are. It Seems Fairly Plausible That If Alexander Or Ghengis Khan Had Never Been Born, Some Other Individual Would Have Filled His Place And Executed The Design Of The Hellenic Or Mongolic Expansion; But The Alexanders Of Philosophy And Religion, Of Science And Art, Seem Less Expendable; Their Impact Seems Less Determined By Economic Challenges And Social Pressures; And They Seem To Have A Much Wider Range Of Possibilities To Influence The Direction, Shape And Texture Of Civilizations.

Politics Can Be Relatively Fair In The Breathing Spaces Of History; At Its Critical Turning Points There Is No Other Rule Possible Than The Old One, That The End Justifies The Means.

The Régime Did Not Want Communists; It Wanted Robots. It Will Take At Least A Generation To Change Them Back Into Humans Again.