History has made us old. Pascal said that the ancients are less ancient than ourselves, for they lived in the youth of time.
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This goes back way before Pascal. Definitely in Hobbes, probably in the humanists
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Maybe Bacon was the first person to use that exact phrasing, but some Romans literally believed they lived in a "dying world"
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just spenglerian winter things
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