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21 " An ideology is not a scientific theory, but often nonscientific and even antiscientific. It is the expression of hopes, wishes, fears, ideals, not a hypothesis about events--though ideologies are often thought by those who hold them to be scientific theories. Thus the theory of evolution or of relativity or of the electronic composition of matter are scientific theories; whereas the doctrines of the preambles to the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution of the United States, the Nazi racial doctrines, Marxist dialectical materialism, St. Anselm's doctrine of the meaning of world history, are ideologies. "
― James Burnham , The Managerial Revolution: What Is Happening in the World
22 " for money cannot find good soldiers, but good soldiers will be sure to find money.… "
― James Burnham , The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom