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To: koan who wrote (51252)	8/20/2013 10:52:45 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By Thehammer Respond to of 85487

Will Durant and Sowell have a similar viewpoint on social movements: “A succinct summary of the tragic vision was given by historians Will and Ariel Durant: “Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for those are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history.” — P. 112 Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Annointed