What is a society without a heroic dimension?

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been read more

The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been "great changes.".

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be read more

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention read more

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.

The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides
appears to assert when he says history is philosophy read more

The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides
appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from
examples.