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Modern History
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It was a roiling and mobile civilization marked by a steady increase in carnality, vulgarity, brutality. Yet, oddly, the institutions and the accustomed frameworks of liberal parliamentary democracy, of that highest creation of the now passing Modern Age, continued to exist--at a time when civilization itself (a term first appearing in English in 1601) was coming apart. History is not governed by logic: but we must at least consider that this strange duality cannot exist much longer: that sooner
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― Democracy and Populism: Fear and Hatred
― Democracy and Populism: Fear and Hatred
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The land was enormous, the ambitions were grand, and the control had to be just as big.
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― Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire
― Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire
