ABSTRACT
In their book The Lessons of History, Will and Ariel Durant (quoted in Kurlansky, 1998) have this to say:
So the first biological lesson of history is that life is competition. Competition is not only the life of trade, it is the trade of life – peaceful when food abounds, violent when the mouths outrun the food. Animals eat one another without qualm: civilized men consume one another by due process of law.
