History Had A Slow Pulse; Man Counted

History Is A Priori Amoral; It Has No Conscience.

The Revolutions Of Thought Which Shape The Basic Outlook Of An Age Are Not Disseminated Through Text-books- They Spread Like Epidemics, Through Contamination By Invisible Agents And Innocent Germ Carriers, By The Most Varied Forms Of Contact, Or Simply By Breathing The Common Air.

Coincidence May Be Described As The Chance Encounter Of Two Unrelated Causal Chains Which - Miraculously, It Seems - Merge Into A Significant Event.

Two Half-truths Do Not Make A Truth, And Two Half- Cultures Do Not Make A Culture

The Disastrous History Of Our Species Indicates The Futility Of All Attempts At A Diagnosis Which Do Not Take Into Account The Possibility That Homo Sapiens Is A Victim Of One Of Evolution's Countless Mistakes.