Our Political Organization, Based As It Is

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.

After Years Of Work In Both Areas Of Study, I Concluded That The Social Sciences Were Different, In Many Important Ways, From The Natural Sciences, But That The Same Scientific Methods Were Applicable In Both Areas, And, Indeed, That No Very Useful Work Could Be Done In Either Area Except By Scientific Methods.

The Council On Foreign Relations Is The American Branch Of A Society Which Originated In England ... [and] ... Believes National Boundaries Should Be Obliterated And One-world Rule Established.

I Am Now Quite Sure That Tragedy And Hope Was Suppressed Although I Do Not Know Why Or By Whom

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.