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 | | Quigley, by an intensive process of reduction, or rather idealization, of masses of historical data, derived a procedure for the diagnosis and therapy of ailing civilizations/world systems, especially the one which he inhabited. |
 | | Quigley's economics is itself economical, entailing a short and particular vocabulary (expansion, growth, rate of growth, production, surplus, savings, investment, invention, instrument, institution) which he considered necessary and sufficient to form [Page 5] a theory intended to account for those phenomena common to all "civilizations" (citified literate societies). |
 | | Quigley admits to his theory a stage of cultural "mixture" (1961: 79-80); but the stage of mixture is always a remote preliminary [or, as a stage of "invasion," postliminary (1961: 88-89)] to the period of expansion, which is one of organizational uniformity. |
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