Our Political Organization, Based As It Is

The Social Sciences Are Usually Concerned With Groups Of Persons Rather Than Individual Persons. The Behavior Of Individuals, Being Free, Is Unpredictable.

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.

To Know Is Not Too Demanding: It Merely Requires Memory And Time. But To Understand Is Quite A Different Matter: It Requires Intellectual Ability And Training, A Self Conscious Awareness Of What One Is Doing, Experience In Techniques Of Analysis And Synthesis, And Above All, Perspective.

The Instrument Of Expansion Of Classical Civilization Was A Social Organization, Slavery.

The Failure Of Christianity In The Areas West From Sicily Was Even Greater, And Was Increased By The Spread Of Arab Outlooks And Influence To That Area, And Especially To Spain.