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 tru… - Will Durant

Utopias of equality are biologically doomed, and the best that the amiable philosopher can hope for is an approximate equality of legal justice and educational opportunity. A

Childhood may be defined as the age of play; therefore some children are never young, and some adults are never old.

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.