The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels.

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.

Even today few scientists and perhaps even fewer nonscientists realize that science is a method and nothing else.

One of the chief reasons for the widespread fear of the Huns rested on their ability to travel very long distances in relatively short periods. This ability may well have been based on their use of horseshoes.

On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.

Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.

When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.