Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

Never globalize a problem if it can possibly be dealt with locally.

Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.

The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?