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作者：nunia 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
'The Greek way of expressing past and future differed from ours. We say that the past is behind us and the future is in front of us. To the Greeks, however, the past was before them, because they could plainly see its finished form standing in front of them; it was territory they had passed through and whose terrain they had charted. It was the future that was behind them, sneaking up like a thief in the night, full of dim imaginings and vast uncertainties. Nothing could penetrate the blackness of this unknown future except that rare flash of foresight that the Greeks called sophos, or wisdom. Yet even these flashes of wisdom depended entirely on the capacity to remember what is eternal and unchanging - which is precisely what we have almost completely forgotten.'
- from 'Civilization and its Enemies - the next Stage of History' by Lee Harris.
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Pope elicits anger across the Islamic world Friday
