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"The Renaissance... saw human history as a realm of infinite possibilities, but forgot that it is a realm of evil as well as good potentialities. In both its rationalism and its mysticism the Renaissance thought that it had found methods of extricating the universal man from the particular man, embedded in the flux of nature."

“Certainly there is a sense in which Britain and America are more democratic than Germany; but on the other hand, defenders of the totalitarian system can make a plausible case for maintaining that what we have is not democracy, but financial oligarchy” (9, quoting T.SElliot)