tags:: #source/book History Philosophy on/culture
author:: Will Durant Ariel Durant
read:: true

Reflections

History smiles at all attempts to force its flow into theoretical patterns or logical grooves; it plays havoc with out generalizations, breaks all our rules; history is baroque.

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.

History and the Earth

"When the universe has crushed him man will still be nobler than that which kills him, because he knows that he is dying, and of its victory the universe knows nothing." – Pascal

Generations of men establish a growing mastery over the earth, but they are destined to become fossils in its soil.

The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows.