Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
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True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.Ralph A. Cram
Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.
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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.
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