His project : laws of physics operate on society through military and monetary, consolidation and dispersal. The old is supplanted by the the new, eg. worn out military followed by monetary replaced by the new blood of barbarism, joined by their own limitations.
*T Roosevelt, 1902, started anti-trust suit against Northern Securites, of JP Morgan
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Brooks Adams, Arthur Beringause, Knopf 1955
America's Economic Supremacy
predictions
- Russian-Japanese war
- Russian Revolution
- decline of England
- France of the 20th Century
- WW1 to last 30 yrs
- US- Russia confrontation
- a new world to arise and bloom about 1950
welcomed large monoplies of early 20th Century
hawk
"followed Adm A T Mayhan...America...commercialy triumphant by...military action"
and father-in-law, R Adm C. H. Davis
*as advisor to T Roosevelt
1895 with H.C. Lodge, sought war with Venezuela
cf. Henry Adams: "Violence is always a waste. War is always a blunder, necessarily stupid, and usually avoidable."
at First Parish Church. 1914
"no society like anything which our ancestors have known can cohere without a faith in revealed religion, for without such faith justice cannot be administered...the right and power to coerce.."
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