questions in his Catechism. More importantly, he supplied most of the money to print it. It is a Great Book because it finally solves the mystery of man and lays bare the most fundamental laws that have always governed human behavior. I did for man’s history what Darwin did for the history of animal species and Newton did for the inorganic universe. It is the supreme achievement of human thought. I was the first to make history truly scientific. All the philosophers, from Plato on, sought the “philosopher’s