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What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority. – Arthur Erickson

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Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today. – Arthur Erickson

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Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them. – Arthur Erickson

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Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books. – Thomas Carlyle, Life of Frederick the Great

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The real history of consciousness starts with ones first lie. – Joseph Brodsky

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Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other. – Marco Rubio

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No man is truly great who is great only in his own lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. – William Hazlitt, Table Talk, 1822

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