• For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.

    Barbara Tuchman: For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.
    Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.426, Random House