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    1. Ben McCarthy‏ @BenMcC Mar 1

      Tweetstorm coming in on Will Durant's THE LESSONS OF HISTORY. On themes and lessons observed from 5,000 years of world history.

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    2. Ben McCarthy‏ @BenMcC Mar 1

      History is subject to geology. Climate no longer controls us severely, but it limits us. A tornado can ruin in an hour the city that took a century to build; Let rain become too rare, and civilization disappears under sand

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      Ben McCarthy‏ @BenMcC Mar 1

      Geography is the matrix of history. Its rivers, lakes, oases, and oceans draw settlers to their shores, for water is the life of organisms and towns, and offers inexpensive roads for transport and trade. E.g. Egypt was "the gift of the Nile"

      4:07 PM - 1 Mar 2018
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        2. Ben McCarthy‏ @BenMcC Mar 1

          Life is competition. Life is peaceful when food abounds, violent when the mouths outrun the food. Co-operation is real and increases with social development, but mostly because it is a tool to strengthen our group in its competition with other groups

          2 replies 12 retweets 63 likes
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        3. Ben McCarthy‏ @BenMcC Mar 1

          Life is selection. In the competition for food or mates or power some organisms succeed and some fail. Freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.

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        4. Ben McCarthy‏ @BenMcC Mar 1

          Life must breed. Nature has no use for organisms, variations, or groups that cannot reproduce abundantly. She is more interested in the species than in the individual, and makes little difference between 'civilization' and 'barbarism'.

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        5. Ben McCarthy‏ @BenMcC Mar 1

          Overpopulation. If the human brood is too numerous for the food supply, Nature has three agents for restoring the balance: famine, pestilence, and war.

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        6. Ben McCarthy‏ @BenMcC Mar 1

          Concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable. It is periodically alleviated by violent destruction or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, concentrating and recirculating wealth.

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        7. Ben McCarthy‏ @BenMcC Mar 1

          Human nature drives everyone. Means and instrumentalities change; motives and ends remain the same. Nothing is clearer in history than the adoption by successful rebels of the methods they condemned in the forces they disposed.

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        8. Ben McCarthy‏ @BenMcC Mar 1

          Many new ideas are not really any good, but they are where real change comes from. New ideas should be heard, for the sake of the few that can be used; but new ideas should be compelled to go through the mill of objection, opposition, and contumely.

          2 replies 12 retweets 55 likes
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        9. Ben McCarthy‏ @BenMcC Mar 1

          Morality changes. Moral codes differ because they adjust themselves to historical and environmental conditions. Probably every vice was once a virtue, a quality that led to survival. Man's sins may be the relics of his rise rather than the stigmata of his fall.

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        10. Ben McCarthy‏ @BenMcC Mar 1

          If Rationality is to govern the world, it must regard the religious needs of the soul. Even the skeptical historian develops a humble respect for religion. It has appealed to imagination, hope, and the senses; its mythology has consoled and brightened the lives of the suffering.

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        11. Ben McCarthy‏ @BenMcC Mar 1

          War is a constant of history. The last 3,421 years of recorded history have seen only 268 without war. The causes of war are the same as the causes of competition among individuals, and some conflicts are too fundamental to be resolved by negotiation.

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        12. Ben McCarthy‏ @BenMcC Mar 1

          All civilizations collapse. Challenges may come from a dozen sources, and may by repetition or combination rise to a destructive intensity. Man picks up his tools and his arts and moves on, taking his memories and civilization with him, and eventually builds another home.

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        13. Ben McCarthy‏ @BenMcC Mar 1

          Creative minds can be immortal. Homer has more readers now than in his own day and land. The Greek poets and philosophers are in every library and college. This selective survival of creative minds is the most real and beneficent of immortalities.

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        14. Ben McCarthy‏ @BenMcC Mar 1

          Progress is real. History is above all else the creation and recording of heritage; progress is its increasing abundance, preservation, transmission, and use. Heritage rises, and man rises in proportion as he receives it.

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        15. Ben McCarthy‏ @BenMcC Mar 1

          That's it! There are some controversial points in there, but I hope that they made the read MORE interesting and enjoyable. It's a great book with a refreshing 'big picture' perspective of history, as you can see. -'The Lessons of History' by Will and Ariel Durant-

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