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The average age of the world’s great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence:
- from bondage to spiritual faith
- from spiritual faith to great courage
- from courage to liberty
- from liberty to abundance
- from abundance to selfishness
- from selfishness to complacency
- from complacency to apathy
- from apathy to dependency
- from dependency back to bondage.
– Alexander Fraser Tytler (1742-1813)