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Demosthenes blamed the decline of Greece on the decay of patriotism among its citizens, the decay of probity among their leaders. After Alexander the Macedonian, many people conquered Greece. The Romans conquered it in the Second Century B.C. Thereafter the Hellenes, no longer masters of the civilized world, were overrun...
No nation had ever dreamed of, much less possessed, such a Navy. Told time & again that their navy yards were jammed, that bottlenecks galore cluttered the Navy's way even before the last increases were voted, the U. S. people impatiently asked: How soon could all the new ships...
The philosophical examiner was Dr. John Haynes Holmes in the Christian Century. His summing up: "If I want to bring clearly before my eyes just how . . . early Christians must have appeared to the highly respectable and patriotic Romans of their day, I have only to look at Jehovah's...
The political philosophy that this career has hammered out for him is simple. His belief in a final Hitler defeat is no mere Little Englander's faith in muddling through. It comes from his faith that "what force alone constructs has neither permanence nor life." The concept of triumphant...
According to German Philosopher Oswald Spengler (Decline of the West), civilizations are born and die like human beings, their average life-span about 1,500 years. One crusty old civilization that lived longer than Spengler's average was Persia's. In 4000 B. C. Persia got started. The...