Thursday, March 11, 2010

THE CYCLE OF CIVILIZATIONS...SO FAR

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 complaceny to apathy;

from apathy to dependence;

from dependency back again into bondage.

Sir Alex Fraser Tyler: (1742-1813) Scottish jurist and historian

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