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• Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and…
• The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal…
• As the world community develops in peace, it will open up great untapped reservoirs in human nature.
• The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.
• Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of…
• Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is…
• The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.
• Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking…
• A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in…
• We are not asked to subscribe to any utopia or to believe in a perfect world just around the corner. We are…
• It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it.
• Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally…

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