Will and Ariel Durant talk about war
the doleful tally…
“In the last 3,421 years
of recorded history
only 268 have seen no war.”
from The Lessons of History (1968) by Will and Ariel Durant, p. 81.
Sadly, an update changes only one of the numbers in the Durants’ doleful tally: we now have 3,477 years of recorded history.
It’s obvious that humankind can’t figure out how to study war no more.
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