    155

    156. When granted anything they wished, the heroes of these tales chose such items as "a

    bun, a sausage, and as much wine as he can drink," "white bread and chicken," or "crude

    wine and a bowl of potatoes in milk."  Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre and

    Other Episodes in French Cultural History, Vintage Books, New York, 1985, pp. 22,

    24-34.

    157. Daniel Boorstin, The Discoverers, pp. 236-244.

    158. On March 12, 1519, Cortes landed at Tabasco and overwhelmed an Aztec army that

    outnumbered his tiny force 300 to one.  (Hammond Innes, The Conquistadors, Alfred A.

    Knopf, New York, 1969, pp. 42-52.)

    159. G.M. Trevelyan, A Shortened History of England, p. 206.

    160. See Steven Levy, Artificial Life: a report from the frontier where computers meet

    biology, New York, Vintage Books, 1993, 35-42.

    161. For the feasibility of space colonies, see Gerard K. O'Neill, 2081: A Hopeful View of

    the Human Future, A Touchstone Book, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1981, pp. 61-75.

    When he wrote this book, O'Neill was president of the Space Studies Institute.

    162.  Paul G. Hattersley, M.D., "Blood," Academic American Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, Grolier

    Incorporated, Danbury, Connecticut, 1985, p. 335.

    163.  Quoted in Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power, pp. 230-231.

    164. Caesar bragged of wanting "to punish" the Eburones' "heinous crime with total

    annihilation." (Caesar, The Conquest of Gaul, p. 149.)  And when his troops overwhelmed

    the leading Gallic city of Avaricum--a town Caesar himself called "almost the finest in

    Gaul"--his troops killed nearly forty thousand inhabitants, including all the women, children

    and elderly.  (Caesar, The Conquest of Gaul, p. 169.)

    165.  Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: the history of the Empire

    from A.D. 180 to A.D. 395, first volume of the unabridged edition, Modern Library, New

    York (no publication date available), pp. 25-26.

    166.  James Burke, Connections, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1978, p. 84.

    167.  James Burke, Connections, p. 82.

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