What a strange thing then is this great civilization, that … - George R. Stewart

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What a strange thing then is this great civilization, that no sooner have men attained it than they seek to flee from it!

George R. Stewart

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George R. Stewart (May 31, 1895 – August 22, 1980) was an American historian, toponymist, novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Alternative Names: George Rippey Stewart

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The people who live in any generation do much, he realized, either to create or to solve the problems for the people who come in the generations later.

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How then, once overthrown, shall this great civilization, except by renewed Forces and Pressures, ever come again?

What a strange thing then is this great civilization, that no sooner have men attained it than they seek to flee from it! - George R. Stewart

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