“It was no doubt the common opinion of thoughtful men that society was approaching a critical period which might result in great changes. The labor troubles, their causes, course, and cure, took lead of all other topics in the public prints, and in serious conversation.”
Source: Looking Backward, 2000-1887 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25439 (1888), Ch. 1.
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“When public opinion changes, it is with the rapidity of thought.”
Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=807&chapter=88152&layout=html&Itemid=27 (6 January 1816) ME 14:384
1810s
Source: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.11
The Crisis No. IV.
1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)
Context: There is a mystery in the countenance of some causes, which we have not always present judgment enough to explain. It is distressing to see an enemy advancing into a country, but it is the only place in which we can beat them, and in which we have always beaten them, whenever they made the attempt. The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. Danger and deliverance make their advances together, and it is only the last push, in which one or the other takes the lead.
As quoted in "Sayings of the Week" in The Observer [London] (15 April 1934)
"The Welfare State in Trouble: Systemic Crisis or Growing Pains?" The American Economic Review (May 1980).
Sect. 318, as translated by T. M. Knox, (1952)
Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1820/1821)
The Sunday Times, London (10 May 1992)
L'espérance oubliée (1972) [Hope in Time of Abandonment] translated by C. Edward Hopkin (1973)