I Am Now Quite Sure

No Scientist Ever Believes That He Has The Final Answer Or The Ultimate Truth On Anything.

The Argument That The Two Parties Should Represent Opposed Ideals And Policies, One, Perhaps, Of The Right And The Other Of The Left, Is A Foolish Idea Acceptable Only To Doctrinaire And Academic Thinkers.

The History Of The Last Century Shows, As We Shall See Later, That The Advice Given To Governments By Bankers, Like The Advice They Gave To Industrialists, Was Consistently Good For Bankers, But Was Often Disastrous For Governments, Businessmen, And The People Generally.

After Years Of Work In Both Areas Of Study, I Concluded That The Social Sciences Were Different, In Many Important Ways, From The Natural Sciences, But That The Same Scientific Methods Were Applicable In Both Areas, And, Indeed, That No Very Useful Work Could Be Done In Either Area Except By Scientific Methods.

This Priesthood Became A Closed Group, Able To Control Enormous Wealth And Incomes, And Concerned Very Largely With The Study Of The Solar And Astronomical Periodicities On Which There Influence Was Originally Based. With The Surplus Thus Created, The Priesthood Was Able To Command Human Labor In Huge Amounts And To Direct This Labor From The Simple Tillage Of The Peasant Peoples To The Diversified And Specialized Activities That Constitute Civilized Living.