"The average age of the world's greatest civilization's
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 Tytler (1742-1813)
Lord Woodhouselee, Scottish jurist, Professor and Historian
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