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Just as two material bodies cannot occupy the same space at the same time (should they try it, the universe would blow up), two cultures cannot coexist in the same territory. The more vigorous always absorbs the weaker—regardless of which is the more “sophisticated”—and emerges changed, more (as the Goths, by the Romans they conquered) or less (as the European-Americans, by the Amerinds).

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COMMUNES ON THE MOON?

Just as two material bodies cannot occupy the same space at the same time (should they try it, the universe would blow up), two cultures cannot coexist in the same territory. The more vigorous always absorbs the weaker—regardless of which is the more “sophisticated”—and emerges changed, more (as the Goths, by the Romans they conquered) or less (as the European-Americans, by the Amerinds).