Letter to the New York Times Editor

Dear Editor:



Decades ago in the midst of the Vietnam War, Robert

Ardrey wrote this in his bestseller, THE SOCIAL

CONTRACT (my Fontana Library paperback edition was

first issued in 1972):



"I was writing early in 1966, when escalation of

American power in Vietnam was less than a year old and

American optimism was still a native resource.

Applying the territorial principle, I published my

conclusion that the war was unwinnable. A powerful

intruder, uninhibited by world censure, may with a

single blow annihilate a territorial defender. But an

effort to escape moral obloquy through gradual

escalation of force gives the weakest defender

opportunity to escalate his own quite incalculable

biological resources. Incapable of playing the Hitler,

we played instead evolution's fool."



We haven't learned a thing, have we. Once again we are

fighting human nature with the fervor kindled by a

religious belief. We are attacking our own mirror

image!



Think for a moment of how we would rally to the

barricades if we were attacked! Is it so strange that

the Sunni's are doing the same thing?



Ten, twenty years from now even children will wonder

how supposedly smart leaders could have been so dumb.



Regards,

N.C. Swede



Other books of interest on the subject of the biological

basis of human society are:



African Genesis

The Territorial Imperative

The Social Contract

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