Only A Fool Would Try

A Great Civilization Is Not Conquered From Without Until It Has Destroyed Itself From Within.

The Influence Of Geographic Factors Diminishes As Technology Grows. The Character And Contour Of A Terrain May Offer Opportunities For Agriculture, Mining, Or Trade, But Only The Imagination And Initiative Of Leaders, And The Hardy Industry Of Followers, Can Transform The Possibilities Into Fact...man, Not The Earth, Makes Civilization.

Only A Fool Would Try To Compress A Hundred Centuries Into A Hundred Pages Of Hazardous Conclusions. We Proceed.

Man, Not The Earth, Makes Civilization.

It Is Good A Philosopher Should Remind Himself, Now And Then, That He Is A Particle Pontificating On Infinity.