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THE DECADE OF THE GREAT LIBERAL DEATH WISH

“Never, our archaeologists of the future will surely conclude, was any generation of men intent upon the pursuit of happiness more advantageously placed to attain it, who yet, with seeming deliberation, took the opposite course—toward chaos, not order; toward breakdown, not stability; toward death, destruction and darkness, not life, creativity and light”

December 1 1970 Malcolm Muggeridge
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THE DECADE OF THE GREAT LIBERAL DEATH WISH

“Never, our archaeologists of the future will surely conclude, was any generation of men intent upon the pursuit of happiness more advantageously placed to attain it, who yet, with seeming deliberation, took the opposite course—toward chaos, not order; toward breakdown, not stability; toward death, destruction and darkness, not life, creativity and light”

December 1 1970 Malcolm Muggeridge

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