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To Say Nothing, Especially When Speaking, Is Half The Art Of Diplomacy.

Civilization Is Not Inherited; It Has To Be Learned And Earned By Each Generation Anew; If The Transmission Should Be Interrupted For One Century, Civilization Would Die, And We Should Be Savages Again.

In Progressive Societies The Concentration[of Wealth] May Reach A Point Where The Strength Of Number In The Many Poor Rivals The Strength Of Ability In The Few Rich; Then The Unstable Equilibrium Generates A Critical Situation, Which History Has Diversely Met By Legislation Redistributing Wealth Or By Revolution Distributing Poverty.

Historically The Belief In Heaven And The Belief In Utopia Are Like Compensatory Buckets In A Well: When One Goes Down The Other Comes Up. When The Classic Religions Decayed, Communistic Agitation Rose In Athens (430 B.c.), And Revolution Began In Rome (133 B.c.); When These Movements Failed, Resurrection Faiths Succeeded, Culminating In Christianity; When, In Our Eighteenth Century, Christian Belief Weakened, Communism Reappeared. In This Perspective The Future Of Religion Is Secure.

Those Who Know Nothing About History Are Doomed Forever To Repeat It.