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Matt Ridley on the Evolution of Everything

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The Great Man Theory

I found your book to be a bit of an educator. I really like that part of your culture and nature. The great men are symptoms of the times rather than authors of the changes they lived through. After the 20th century, it's hard not to agree that the great men can influence history. But Lord Acton said, great men are mostly bad men. And we have some pretty good examples of that in the 20th Century.

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