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> [“One of the most momentous, yet all but invisible, psychological changes in human history has been the intensification of a sense of insecurity and alienation from the world around us that arose when we became no longer able easily to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-elvin/one-of-the-most-momentous-yet-all-but-invisible-psychological-changes/)

[Mark Elvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-elvin/)

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## More by Mark Elvin

> [“One of the most momentous, yet all but invisible, psychological changes in human history has been the intensification of a sense of insecurity and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-elvin/one-of-the-most-momentous-yet-all-but-invisible-psychological-changes/)

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> [“It must be remembered: fields end freedom. Whatever the astonishing subsequent achievements of civilization, it had a little recognized price: humanity itself became one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-elvin/it-must-be-remembered-fields-end-freedom-whatever-the-astonishing/)

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> [“Human history has no unique pattern of intelligibility.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-elvin/human-history-has-no-unique-pattern-of-intelligibility/)

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> [ “Perhaps the most overpowering contrast \[with the West\] is the virtual absence in premodern China of the idea of a transcendent creator God who… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-elvin/perhaps-the-most-overpowering-contrast-with-the-west-is-the-virtual/)

[Mark Elvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-elvin/)

> [ “\[There is a\] gulf that can exist between different emotional and perceptual worlds—all 'Chinese'—in recent times \[post-Deng Xiaoping\].” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-elvin/there-is-a-gulf-that-can-exist-between-different-emotional-and/)

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> [ “The resurrection of this once popular work \[Ping Jinya's forgotten bestseller of the 1930s, Tides in the Human Sea \] is a reminder that… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-elvin/the-resurrection-of-this-once-popular-work-ping-jinya-s-forgotten/)

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> [“I have taken a different approach. One that I hope is more easily accessible to the reader’s emotional imagination, though less analytically systematic. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-elvin/i-have-taken-a-different-approach-one-that-i-hope-is-more-easily/)

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