"The top shelf of history is cluttered with discarded panaceas ... Our choice finally settled on those great salvations to which, at some time or othe...
"The top shelf of history is cluttered with discarded panaceas ... Our choice finally settled on those great salvations to which, at some time or other, at least a third of the human race has clung, or to which it still clings."--Introd., p. 11.