Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?: American Conservative Thought in the Twentieth CenturyWilliam F. Buckley (Jr.) Half-title: American conservative thought in the twentieth century. |
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Page 437
... civilization and progress . True prog- ress , however , does not consist in a quantitative advance in wealth and numbers , nor even in a qualitative advance in technology and the control of matter , though all these play their ...
... civilization and progress . True prog- ress , however , does not consist in a quantitative advance in wealth and numbers , nor even in a qualitative advance in technology and the control of matter , though all these play their ...
Page 456
... civilization was declining , senescent . And , in fact , the self - endowment of Western civilization with meaning closely followed the actual expansion and differentiation . The spiritual growth of the West through the orders since ...
... civilization was declining , senescent . And , in fact , the self - endowment of Western civilization with meaning closely followed the actual expansion and differentiation . The spiritual growth of the West through the orders since ...
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... civilization is the cause of its decline . A civilization can , indeed , advance and decline at the same time - but not forever . There is a limit toward which this am- biguous process moves ; the limit is reached when an activist sect ...
... civilization is the cause of its decline . A civilization can , indeed , advance and decline at the same time - but not forever . There is a limit toward which this am- biguous process moves ; the limit is reached when an activist sect ...
Contents
you Ever See a Dream Walking? | xv |
Selected Bibliography | xli |
Part One THE HISTORICAL | 3 |
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