“Western ideology believed that the world was good because it was made by God in six days and that at the end of each day He looked at His work and said that it was good.”

—  Carroll Quigley

Source: The Evolution of Civilizations (1961) (Second Edition 1979), Chapter 10, Western Civilization, p. 337

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