Each religion is a brave guess at the authorship of Hamlet. Yet, as far as the play goes, does it make any difference whether Shakespeare or Bacon wrote it? Would it make any difference to the actors if their parts happened out of nothingness, if they found themselves acting on the stage because of some gross and unpardonable accident? Would it make any difference if the playwright gave them the lines or whether they composed them themselves, so long as the lines were properly spoken? Would it make any difference to the characters if 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' was really a dream?

The final goal of human effort is man's self-transforma tion.

War is a specific product of civilization.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its existence.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.