This work has been declared by the AHA board as historic, and is superseded by Humanist Manifesto III. The Manifesto is a product of many minds. It was designed to represent a developing point of view, not a new creed.
Re: the iron law of oligarchy Aug22-09, 10:47 PM JRDunassigned: The iron law of oligarchy is a political theory, first developed by the German syndicalist sociologist Robert Michels in his 1911 book, Political Parties. This is actually wrong.
As the Civil War raged, President Lincoln tapped inventor John Ericsson to build an ironclad warship that could engage the Confederates' ironclad the Virginia (previously known as the Merrimack). O'Brien, Patrick Duel of the Ironclads: the Monitor vs.