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The path of civilization

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence:
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Author Greg RavenPosted on November 28, 2012November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories historyTags Sir Alex Fraser Tytler

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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