"History,” Bagehot wrote, “is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.”

— Roger Kimball The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia (2012)

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