Monday, 24 June 2024

[The pace of change, and personal reflection][12th April 1991]

[Redbook9:80][19910412:0905][The pace of change, and personal reflection][12th April 1991]


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‘In such town-and-country complexes [as Sumer from the 4th millennium BCE]* the pace of change quickened enough so that a well-placed individual might see the effect of his actions in his own lifetime and be stimulated to self-criticism and moral reflection of an unprecedented sort.’

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**– ibid. [Encyclopaedia Britannica] 22:103



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