It May Be True That You Can't

The Islamic Conquest Of India Is Probably The Bloodiest Story In History. It Is A Discouraging Tale, For Its Evident Moral Is That Civilization Is A Precious Good, Whose Delicate Complex Of Order And Freedom, Culture And Peace, Can At Any Moment Be Overthrown By Barbarians Invading From Without Or Multiplying Within.

The Laws That Charondas Gave To Catana,... A Man Might Divorce His Wife, Or A Wife Her Husband, Said Charondas, But Then He Or She Must Not Marry Anyone Younger Than The Divorced Mate.

It Is True That Even Across The Himalayan Barrier India Has Sent To The West, Such Gifts As Grammar And Logic, Philosophy And Fables, Hypnotism And Chess, And Above All Numerals And The Decimal System.

Civilization Begins With Order, Grows With Liberty, And Dies With Chaos.

Nothing Is Often A Good Thing To Do And Always A Good Thing To Say.