To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

A fully integrated culture would be like the dinosaurs, which had to perish because they were no longer able to adapt themselves to changes in the external environment.

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.

By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West

The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn is a very significant one.

Each individual in a society is a nexus where innumerable relationships of this character intersect.

In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.