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One of the significant features of the next hundred or so years (assuming relative peace and political stability) is likely to be the dissolution of the parameters within which we have been accustomed to operate, particularly in relation to academic and everyday professional disciplines: we should find that characteristics which we had regarded as exclusive and distinguishable, identifying concepts and areas for ease of manipulation, in fact merge by degree into characteristics of concepts and areas which we had regarded as separate until we begin to obtain a glimpse of the Whole. This may make life more difficult, but at the same time more interesting and, possibly, more rewarding.

It could also produce popular reactions of such strength as to threaten the whole change in perception, endeavouring to force a return to simpler defined and divided perceptions. This is, of course, beginning to happen already.

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