Tuesday, December 31, 2013

The ubiquity of revolutionary times

My too-verbose formulation, sometimes used in large freshman lecture.

Good little color: "Next year marks a millennium since the sermon given in 1014 by Archbishop Wulfstan in York where he declared that 'the world is in a rush and is getting close to its end'" (ht http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/12/we-dont-want-to-believe-it-but-things-really-are-getting-better/)

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