Woe Unto The Defeated, Whom History Treads

Men Cannot Be Treated As Units In Operations Of Political Arithmetic Because They Behave Like The Symbols For Zero And The Infinite , Which Dislocate All Mathematical Operations.

Some Tribes [of Monkeys] Have Taken To Washing Potatoes In The River Before Eating Them, Others Have Not. Sometimes Migrating Groups Of Potato-washers Meet Non-washers, And The Two Groups Watch Each Other's Strange Behavior With Apparent Bewilderment. But Unlike The Inhabitants Of Lilliput, Who Fought Holy Crusades Over The Question At Which End To Break The Egg, The Potato-washing Monkeys Do Not Go To War With The Non-washers, Because The Poor Creatures Have No Language Which Would Enable Them To Declare Washing A Diving Commandment And Eating Unwashed Potatoes A Deadly Heresy.

The Most Persistent Sound Which Reverberates Through Man's History Is The Beating Of War Drums.

Of All Forms Of Mental Activity, The Most Difficult To Induce Even In The Minds Of The Young, Who May Be Presumed Not To Have Lost Their Flexibility, Is The Art Of Handling The Same Bundle Of Data As Before, But Placing Them In A New System Of Relations With One Another By Giving Them A Different Framework, All Of Which Virtually Means Putting On A Different Kind Of Thinking-cap For The Moment. It Is Easy To Teach Anybody A New Fact...but It Needs Light From Heaven Above To Enable A Teacher To Break The Old Framework In Which The Student Is Accustomed To Seeing.

Woe Unto The Defeated, Whom History Treads Into The Dust.