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CYCLES OF CIVILIZATION
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred
years.
These nations have progressed through this sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to selfishness;
From selfishness to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependency back again into bondage.
---Sir Alex Fraser Tyler: (1742-1813) Scottish jurist and historian
From: iconoclast57@sbcglobal.net