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

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

British rule in India is the most sordid and criminal exploitation of one nation by another in all recorded history. I propose to show that England has year by year been bleeding India to the point of death, and that self-government of India by the Hindus could not within any reasonable probability, have worse results than the present form of alien domination.

We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive recirculation.