Thus, Cicero, producing to Atticus, says, "Do not obtain your slaves from Britain, mainly because they are so stupid and so utterly incapable of getting taught that they are not fit to form component of the domestic of Athens." c Sorokin and Merton, "Social Time: a Methodological and Functional Analysis," American Journal of Sociology, XLII (1937), 615-29 Sorokin, Sociocultural Causality, Space, Time, pp.