The Cosmocentric Family
and the Fate of Empires
“Can anything be better for a man than to be heir to himself?”
- Heliogabalus
John Hubbard’s The Fate of Empires published in 1913 is a short 130-page dissertation that asks one simple question, “Can there be a permanent society or are they all doomed to decline?” Hubbard argues that human behavior is shaped by the dynamic interplay between instinct and r…