Quote of the day
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Simplification is the essence of abstraction from which objective values are not necessarily eliminated.
Brooks Adams
Born: June 24, 1848
Died: February 13, 1927 (aged 78)
Bio: Peter Chardon Brooks Adams was an American historian and a critic of capitalism.
Known for:
- The Law of Civilization and Decay (1895)
- The Theory of Social Revolutions (1913)
- The New Empire (1902)
- America's Economic Supremacy (1900)
- The Emancipation of Massachusetts (1886)
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