The Concentration Of Wealth Is A Natural

A History Of Civilization Shares The Presumptuousness Of Every Philosophical Enterprise: It Offers The Ridiculous Spectacle Of A Fragment Expounding The Whole. Like Philosophy, Such A Venture Has No Rational Excuse, And Is At Best But A Brave Stupidity; But Let Us Hope That, Like Philosophy, It Will Always Lure Some Rash Spirits Into Its Fatal Depths.

Science Tells Us How To Heal And How To Kill; It Reduces Our Death Rate In Retail And Then Kills Us Wholesale In War; But Only Wisdom - Desire Coordinated In The Light Of All Experience - Can Tell Us When To Heal And When To Kill.

Man Is An Emotional Animal, Occasionally Rational; And Through His Feelings He Can Be Deceived To His Heart's Content.

India Was The Motherland Of Our Race, And Sanskrit The Mother Of Europe's Languages: She Was The Mother Of Our Philosophy; Mother, Through The Arabs, Of Much Of Our Mathematics; Mother, Through The Buddha, Of The Ideals Embodied In Christianity; Mother, Through The Village Community, Of Self-government And Democracy. Mother India Is In Many Ways The Mother Of Us All.

Human Progress Having Reached A High Level Through Respect For The Liberty And Dignity Of Men, It Has Become Desirable To Re-affirm These Evident Truths