Note 5 — Chapter I · Introduction

Some lecturers at Oxford are inclined to minimize the analogies offered by the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. to modern industrial conditions. In so doing they appear to me to be falling into the commonest of modern fallacies, that of overestimating the importance of size and numbers. For a better appreciation of the analogies see e.g. Ciccotti, Tramonto d. Schiavitù n. Mondo ant. p. 45.