"Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn."

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was revolution much more than one fast kick forward in the long process called evolution? We condemened the 'cost' of revolution; but was it higher than the cost over centuries in backward, underdeveloped communities, which still covered two-thirds of the earth and which still could not guarantee their populations daily bread?

— Ella Winter