Will Durant - Our Oriental Heritage (1954)

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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.

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The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.

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Astrology antedated — and perhaps will survive — astronomy; simple souls are more interested in telling futures than in telling time.

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Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.

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Magic begins in superstition and ends in science.

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