As submissive natures unite with masterful individuals to make the order and operation of a society, so the imitative majority follows the innovating minority, and this follows the originative individual, in adapting new responses to the demands of environment or survival. History in the large is the conflict of minorities; the majority applauds th

Nothing is clearer in history than the adoption by successful rebels of the methods they were accustomed to condemn in the forces they deposed.

America may have its own language (as different from English as Spanish is from Italian), its indigenous literature, its characteristic arts; already these are visibly or raucously on their way.

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

It is not the race that makes the civilization, it is the civilization that makes the people: circumstances geographical, economic, and political create a culture, and the culture creates a human type.

History is color-blind, and can develop a civilization (in any favorable environment) under almost any skin.

much of what we call intelligence is the result of individual education, opportunity, and experience; and there is no evidence that such intellectual acquirements are transmitted in the genes.

So the birth rate, like war, may determine the fate of theologies;

If the human brood is too numerous for the food supply, Nature has three agents for restoring the balance: famine, pestilence, and war.