Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

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• We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability. Breeds
• Both our present science and our present technology are so tinctured with orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature that no solution for our ecologic crisis can… Alone
• If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If… Account
• We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve… Axiom
• [T]he historian lays humanity on the couch. Couch
• Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor… Bad
• Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary. Contemporary
• History is a means of access to ourselves. Access
• The past in the hands of historians is not what it was. Hands

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