If Conquerors Be Regarded As The Engine-drivers

The Self-assertive Tendency Is The Dynamic Expression Of The Holon's Wholeness, The Integrative Tendency, The Dynamic Expression Of Its Partness.

Nobody Before The Pythagorean Had Thought That Mathematical Relations Held The Secret Of The Universe. Twenty-five Centuries Later, Europe Is Still Blessed And Cursed With Their Heritage. To Non-european Civilizations, The Idea That Numbers Are The Key To Both Wisdom And Power, Seems Never To Have Occurred.

Among All Forms Of Mentation, Verbal Thinking Is The Most Articulate, The Most Complex, And The Most Vulnerable To Infectious Diseases. It Is Liable To Absorb Whispered Suggestions, And To Incorporate Them As Hidden Persuaders Into The Code.

In The Pun, Two Strings Of Thought Are Tangled Into One Acoustic Knot.

The Continuous Disasters Of Man's History Are Mainly Due To His Excessive Capacity And Urge To Become Identified With A Tribe, Nation, Church Or Cause, And To Espouse Its Credo Uncritically And Enthusiastically, Even If Its Tenets Are Contrary To Reason, Devoid Of Self-interest And Detrimental To The Claims Of Self-preservation.we Are Thus Driven To The Unfashionable Conclusion That The Trouble With Our Species Is Not An Excess Of Aggression, But An Excess Capacity For Fanatical Devotion.