Johan Huizinga - In the shadow of tomorrow (1936)

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These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.

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History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

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Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

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Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the latter, even less restrained by a supreme culture saving principle, with the means of science creates all the instruments of power demanded from it by the organization of Might.

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