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Progress Is The Increasing Control Of The Environment By Life.

The South Creates The Civilizations, The North Conquers Them, Ruins Them, Borrows From Them, Spreads Them: This Is One Summary Of History.

And Last Are The Few Whose Delight Is In Meditation And Understanding; Who Yearn Not For Goods, Nor For Victory, But For Knowledge; Who Leave Both Market And Battlefield To Lose Themselves In The Quiet Clarity Of Secluded Thought; Whose Will Is A Light Rather Than A Fire, Whose Haven Is Not Power But Truth: These Are The Men Of Wisdom, Who Stand Aside Unused By The World.

In Its Youth A People Produce Mythology And Poetry; In Its Decadence, Philosophy And Logic.

For You Will Sorely Miss Civilization If It Is Sacrificed In The Turbulence Of Change.