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Pastimes : A CENTURY OF LIONS/THE 20TH CENTURY TOP 100 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (2249)	12/23/1999 8:43:00 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

Hmmm...maybe the 13th century is rivalled by ours. Could it be that ours is the greatest century that ever was? The 20th century has been an epic age of human progress unrivaled in the history of mankind. In fact, the objective historical evidence proves incontestably that the human condition improved more over these past 100 years than in all the previous centuries combined since man first appeared on Earth. A growth era Human condition improved more in the past 100 years than previous centuries combined To measure this century of progress, consider the most awesome statistic of all: life expectancy. Anthropologists inform us that for thousands of years the average human being could expect to live 25 to 30 years of age. Throughout most of human history, life was, as Thomas Hobbes famously described it, "nasty, brutish and short." But since the late 19th century, life expectancy has risen to 77 years in the United States -- an increase of more than 30 years in just one century. "An epidemic of life" is how the respected American Council on Science and Health summarizes the health improvements of the 20th century Full article: intellectualcapital.com