In an air age, we are accustomed to the presentation of aerial photography and are often astounded by the breadth and perspective which such pictures reveal.
Equally I think, the historical is sometimes the only approach to an understanding of that tangled mass of complexities we term modern civilisation.
It affords us at least some vantage points from which we may traverse the route over which mankind has travelled to reach the present point in time.
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1949 - SOME THOUGHTS ON OUR PRESENT DISCONTENT - Bro. L. R. R. Denny.