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To: A. Pole

Read the history of Renaissance [say, "the Prince" with its survival of the fittest], Industrial Revolution, and of protocapitalist Netherlands, for a sampler and appetizer.


79 posted on 12/11/2005 6:41:39 PM PST by GSlob
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To: GSlob
Read the history of Renaissance [say, "the Prince" with its survival of the fittest],

I do not know where to start.

Renaissance was a result of centuries of development, it was not a cause of it. And where Machiavelli promotes Social Darwinism? Also are you saying that theories of Machiavelli were the cause of Renaissance?

82 posted on 12/11/2005 6:54:48 PM PST by A. Pole ("Truth at first is ridiculed, then it is violently opposed and then it is accepted as self evident.")
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