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Facts, Assumptions and Goals
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THE PAST AND THE FUTURE
Looking back over the centuries of human history, there is much to inspire and much to appall. As for the future, all that we can be certain of is that it is coming, whether we are well-prepared or ill-prepared for it.
Perhaps the most heartening things about the past are the innumerable examples of whole peoples who lagged far behind their contemporaries at a given time and yet, in later times, overtook them and moved to the forefront of human achievements.
These would include Britons, who were an illiterate tribal people in the ancient world, while the ancient Greeks and Romans were laying the intellectual and material foundations of Western civilization. Yet, more than a millennium later, it was the Britons who led the world into the industrial revolution.
-- Thomas Sowell, DISCRIMINATION AND DISPARITIES.
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