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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in unused condition. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> What will the future bring? From time immemorial this ques- tion has occupied men’s minds though not always to the same degree. Historically it is chiefly in times of physical political economic and spiritual distress that men’s eyes turn with anxious hope to the future and when anticipations utopias and apocalyptic visions multiply. One thinks for instance of the chiliastic expectations of the Augustan age at the beginning of the Christian Era or of the changes in the spirit of the West which accompanied the end of the first millennium. Today as the end of the second millennium draws near we are again living in an age filled with ap???- lyptic images of universal destruction. What is the signifi- cance of that split symbolized by the Iron Curtain. (LL)