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More living men cherish his memory to-day than have ever heard the names of Constantine or Charlemagne.
The Outline of History (1920)
All the miseries and discontents of life are due, he taught, to selfishness.
The Outline of History (1920)
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
The Outline of History (1920)
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe... Yet, clumsily or smoothly, the world, it seems, progresses and will progress.
The Outline of History (1920)
The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.
The Outline of History (1920)
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
The Outline of History (1920)
More lives were wasted by the British generals alone on the opening day of what is known as the Somme offensive of July, 1916 than in the whole French Revolution from start to finish.
The Outline of History (1920)
He was no mere religious fanatic. For eight and twenty years Asoka worked sanely for the real needs of men.
The Outline of History (1920)
Ashoka (264 to 227 B.C.), one of the great monarchs of history, whose dominions extended from Afghanistan to Madras... is the only military monarch on record who abandoned warfare after victory.
The Outline of History (1920)
Our true nationality is mankind.
The Outline of History (1920)
Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness...Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile...Not a single one but has at some time wept.
The Outline of History (1920)
The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built a character - meditative and peaceful and a "nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India".
The Outline of History (1920)
A time when all such good things will be for all men may be coming more nearly than we think. Each one who believes that brings the good time nearer; each heart that fails delays it.
The Outline of History (1920)
Life begins perpetually. Gathered together at last under the leadership of man, the student-teacher of the universe... unified, disciplined, armed with the secret powers of the atom, and with knowledge as yet beyond dreaming, Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.
The Outline of History (1920)