The Social Sciences Are Usually Concerned With

For Years I Have Told My Students That I Been Trying To Train Executives Rather Than Clerks. The Distinction Between The Two Is Parallel To The Distinction Previously Made Between Understanding And Knowledge. It Is A Mighty Low Executive Who Cannot Hire Several People With Command Of More Knowledge Than He Has Himself.

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. Instead, The Two Parties Should Be Almost Identical, So That The American People Can Throw The Rascals Out At Any Election Without Leading To Any Profound Or Extensive Shifts In Policy. Then It Should Be Possible To Replace It, Every Four Years If Necessary, By The Other Party, Which Will Be None Of These Things But Will Still Pursue, With New Vigor, Approximately The Same Basic Policies.

There Were People Who Said The Society Of Cincinnati In The American Revolution, Of Which George Washington Was One Of The Shining Lights, Was A Branch Of The Illuminati.

The Very Idea That There Is Some Kind Of Conflict Between Science And Religion Is Completely Mistaken. Science Is A Method For Investigating Experience... Religion Is The Fundamental, Necessary Internalization Of Our System Of More Permanent Values.

Islam, The Third In Historical Sequence Of The Ethical Monotheistic Religions Of The Near East, Was Very Successful In Establishing Its Monotheism, But Had Only Very Moderate Success In Spreading Its Version Of Jewish And Christian Ethics To The Arabs.