Empires, ancient and modern, seem to attract that problem and share a schizophrenic immigration policy too. Before we confront the “barbarian horde” phobia of present-day White Americans we must remember that at one time Rome also was wide open to welcoming and absorbing many different people’...
Instead of developing individually into huge proportions, the human race tends rather to aggregate196 into vast empires, which compete with one another by means of huge armaments, and invent mitrailleuses and torpedos of incredible ferocity for their mutual197 destruction. The dragons of the prime ...
He gathered into hordes187, tribes, and nations; he chose himself a king, gave himself laws, and built up great empires in Egypt, Assyria, China, and Peru. He raised him altars, Stonehenges and Karnaks. His picture-writing grew into hieroglyphs188 and cuneiforms, and finally emerged, by...