Life is competition. Life is peaceful when food abounds, violent when the mouths outrun the food. Co-operation is real and increases with social development, but mostly because it is a tool to strengthen our group in its competition with other groups
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Creative minds can be immortal. Homer has more readers now than in his own day and land. The Greek poets and philosophers are in every library and college. This selective survival of creative minds is the most real and beneficent of immortalities.
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Progress is real. History is above all else the creation and recording of heritage; progress is its increasing abundance, preservation, transmission, and use. Heritage rises, and man rises in proportion as he receives it.
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That's it! There are some controversial points in there, but I hope that they made the read MORE interesting and enjoyable. It's a great book with a refreshing 'big picture' perspective of history, as you can see. -'The Lessons of History' by Will and Ariel Durant-
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