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“The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.”

Johan Huizinga

Life and Thought in America, ch. 2 (1972).

“These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.”

Johan Huizinga

Source: In the Shadow of Tomorrow (1936), Ch. 11.

“Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.”

Johan Huizinga

Life and Thought in America, ch. 2 (1972).

“Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.”

Johan Huizinga

Source: In the Shadow of Tomorrow (1936), Ch. 2.

“History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.”

Johan Huizinga

De historie kan niets voorspellen, behalve één ding: dat geen groote wending in de menschelijke verhoudingen ooit uitkomt in den vorm, waarin vroeger levenden zich haar hebben kunnen verbeeld.
Source: In the Shadow of Tomorrow (1936), Ch. 20.

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