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I Came Into History From A Primary Concern With Mathematics And Science. This Has Been A Tremendous Help To Me As A Person And As A Historian, Although It Must Be Admitted It Has Served To Make My Historical Interpretations Less Conventional Than May Be Acceptable Of Many Of My Colleagues In The Field.

No Slave System Has Ever Been Able To Continue To Function On The Slaves Provided By Its Own Biological Reproduction Because The Rate Of Human Reproduction Is Too Slow And The Expense From Infant Mortality And Years Of Unproductive Upkeep Of The Young Make This Prohibitively Expensive. This Relationship Is One Of The Basic Causes Of The American Civil War, And Was Even More Significant In Destroying Ancient Rome.

The Growth Of Financial Capitalism Made Possible A Centralization Of World Economic Control And Use Of This Power For The Direct Benefit Of Financiers And The Indirect Injury Of All Other Economic Groups.

In Addition To Their Power Over Government Based On Government Financing And Personal Influence, Bankers Could Steer Governments In Ways They Wished Them To Go By Other Pressures.

Each Central Banksought To Dominate Its Government By Its Ability To Control Treasury Loans, To Manipulate Foreign Exchanges, To Influence The Level Of Economic Activity In The Country, And To Influence Cooperative Politicians By Subsequent Economic Rewards In The Business World.