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Study How A Society Uses Its Land, And You Can Come To Pretty Reliable Conclusions As To What Its Future Will Be.

Modern Industry Seems To Be Inefficient To A Degree That Surpasses One's Enduring Powers Of Imagination. Its Inefficiency Therefore Remains Unnoticed.

Any Intelligent Fool Can Invent Further Complications, But It Takes A Genius To Retain, Or Recapture, Simplicity.

The Best Aid To Give Is Intellectual Aid, A Gift Of Useful Knowledge. A Gift Of Knowledge Is Infinitely Preferable To A Gift Of Material Things.

The Key Words Of Violent Economics Are Urbanization, Industrialization, Centralization, Efficiency, Quantity, Speed. . . . The Problem Of Evolving A Nonviolent Way Of Economic Life [in The West] And That Of Developing The Underdeveloped Countries May Well Turn Out To Be Largely Identical.