Civilization on TrialThirteen essays and lectures written over a period of years, dealing with many problems. |
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... alternative , so far from being stunned into passivity , we should be roused to action . On this second alternative , the lesson of history would not be like an astrologer's horoscope ; it would be like a navigator's chart , which ...
... alternative , so far from being stunned into passivity , we should be roused to action . On this second alternative , the lesson of history would not be like an astrologer's horoscope ; it would be like a navigator's chart , which ...
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... alternative as- sumptions . One of these alternatives is that the future of mankind may not , after all , be going to be catastrophic and that , even if the Second World War prove not to have been the last , we shall survive the rest of ...
... alternative as- sumptions . One of these alternatives is that the future of mankind may not , after all , be going to be catastrophic and that , even if the Second World War prove not to have been the last , we shall survive the rest of ...
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... alternative , I suggest that we historians ought to concentrate our own attention - and direct the attention of our listeners and readers - upon the histories of those civilizations and peoples which , in the light of their past ...
... alternative , I suggest that we historians ought to concentrate our own attention - and direct the attention of our listeners and readers - upon the histories of those civilizations and peoples which , in the light of their past ...
Contents
My View of History | 3 |
The Present Point in History | 16 |
Does History Repeat Itself? | 29 |
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