πŸ“š node [[the diamond age]]
  • Author:: [[Neil Stephenson]]
  • Author:: [[Neal Stephenson]]
  • Full Title:: The Diamond Age
  • Category:: [[books]]
  • Highlights first synced by [[Readwise]] [[September 21st, 2020]]

    • Moral reforms and deteriorations are moved by large forces, and they are mostly caused by reactions from the habits of a preceding period. Backwards and forwards swings the great pendulum, and its alternations are not determined by a few distinguished folk clinging to the end of it. β€”Sir Charles Petrie, THE VICTORIANS (LocationΒ 33)
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