William H. McNeill vs. Alice Bailey
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
William H. McNeill
1917 – 2016
William Hardy McNeill was an American historian and author, noted for his argument that contact and exchange among civilizations is what drives human history forward, first postulated in The Rise of the West (1963). He was the Robert A. Millikan Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago, where he taught from 1947 until his retirement in 1987. In 1980-81 he held the George Eastman Professorship at the University of Oxford.
"Birth control may in time catch up with death control. ...But for the present and the short-range future, it remains obvious that humanity is in course of one o…"
Alice Bailey
1880 – 1949
Alice Ann Bailey was a British and American writer. She wrote about 25 books on Theosophy and was one of the first writers to use the term New Age. She was born Alice La Trobe-Bateman, in Manchester, England and moved to the United States in 1907, where she spent most of her life as a writer and teacher.
"We are told by physicians and scientists that thousands of cells in the human brain are still dormant and, consequently, that the average human being uses only …"
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