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The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.

— Johan Huizinga

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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.

In the Shadow of Tomorrow (1936)

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

In the Shadow of Tomorrow (1936)

Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.

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.

In the Shadow of Tomorrow (1936)

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