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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lord Ritchie-Calder

Titel

Mortgaging the Old Homestead

Ist Teil von

• Foreign Affairs, 1970

Erscheinungsjahr

1970

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Quelle

EBSCOhost Business Source Ultimate

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Past civilizations are buried in the graveyards of their own mistakes, but as each died of its greed, its carelessness or its effeteness another took its place. That was because such civilizations took their character from a locality or region. Today ours is a global civilization; it is not bounded by the Tigris and the Euphrates nor even the Hellespont and the Indus; it is the whole world. Its planet has shrunk to a neighborhood round which a man-made satellite can patrol sixteen times a day, riding the gravitational fences of Man's family estate. It is a community so interdependent that our mistakes are exaggerated on a world scale.