Paul Johnson gives us a fine and fair History of Christianity.

known forces once again intervened. As Silk describes it, “Emerging from his bath, he saw Christ suffering on the cross, assuming the sins of all mankind, of people no better than the Germans, no better than Boulding himself. His hatred disappeared. Once again, Boulding felt kinship with all men. His faith in non-violence was renewed.” In the midst of the Second World War, he called upon the people of the world to abandon their allegiances to earthly nations and join him in the Kingdom of Truth, to be governed by the Love of God. Professor Boulding’s economic thoughts are arrived at by the same fanatical means as his reflections on war and peace; they, too, emit the odor of quackery.

The three Nobel Prize winners appear to be more conventional personalities. Leontief taught at Harvard until his noisy departure, one year before retirement, for New York University. He is best noted for his system of input-output analysis—one industry’s input leads to another industry’s output, etc.—and for his belief that this should be made the basis for national economic planning. Samuelson’s textbook has been standard for a generation; its author has augmented his fortune by writing grave columns for Newsweek. In personal interviews with Silk, Samuelson’s tongue wags a bit, and that is nice to see.

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known forces once again intervened. As Silk describes it, “Emerging from his bath, he saw Christ suffering on the cross, assuming the sins of all mankind, of people no better than the Germans, no better than Boulding himself. His hatred disappeared. Once again, Boulding felt kinship with all men. His faith in non-violence was renewed.” In the midst of the Second World War, he called upon the people of the world to abandon their allegiances to earthly nations and join him in the Kingdom of Truth, to be governed by the Love of God. Professor Boulding’s economic thoughts are arrived at by the same fanatical means as his reflections on war and peace; they, too, emit the odor of quackery.

The three Nobel Prize winners appear to be more conventional personalities. Leontief taught at Harvard until his noisy departure, one year before retirement, for New York University. He is best noted for his system of input-output analysis—one industry’s input leads to another industry’s output, etc.—and for his belief that this should be made the basis for national economic planning. Samuelson’s textbook has been standard for a generation; its author has augmented his fortune by writing grave columns for Newsweek. In personal interviews with Silk, Samuelson’s tongue wags a bit, and that is nice to see.