For The First Time In Its History,

Everything Is Too Important Ever To Be Entrusted To Professional Experts, Because Every Organization Of Such Professionals And Every Established Social Organization Becomes A Vested-interest Institution More Concerned With Its Efforts To Maintain Itself Or Advance Its Own Interests Than To Achieve The Purpose That Society Expects It To Achieve.

Our Political Organization, Based As It Is On An Eighteenth-century Separation Of Powers And On A Nineteenth-century Nationalist State, Is Generally Recognized To Be Semiobselete.

When Profits Are Pursued By Geographic Interchange Of Goods, So That Commerce For Profit Becomes The Central Mechanism Of The System, We Usually Call It "commercial Capitalism." In Such A System Goods Are Conveyed From Ares Where They Are More Common (and Therefore Cheaper) To Areas Where They Are Less Common (and Therefore Less Cheap). This Process Leads To Regional Specialization And To Division Of Labor, Both In Agricultural Production And In Handicrafts.

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.

I Came Into History From A Primary Concern With Mathematics And Science. This Has Been A Tremendous Help To Me As A Person And As A Historian, Although It Must Be Admitted It Has Served To Make My Historical Interpretations Less Conventional Than May Be Acceptable Of Many Of My Colleagues In The Field.