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I love the intro to this. "For there is no way to read the future of the world: peoples, nations, and cultures move onward into inscrutable time. In our day it
by xeromal 4y ago
I love the intro to this.
"For there is no way to read the future of the world: peoples, nations, and cultures move onward into inscrutable time. In our day it is difficult to conceive of a future less happy, less civilized than our own. Yet history teaches us that every culture passes through definite cycles of development, climax, and decay. And so, we must recognize, ultimately may ours."
- kingcharles 4y agoWritten moments before the worst war in history that involved the explosion of two nuclear weapons. Which itself turned into almost 70 years of relative global peace.