The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.


Complete Essays: 1939-1956 (ed. Ivan R Dee, 2002) - ISBN: 9781566634410

Aldous Huxley Quotes

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or ...

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or ...

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or ...

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or ...