Sunday, 23 August 2009

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations, 


it has been said, 


is only 200-300 years. 


These nations have all progressed 


through the following  evolutionary sequence:


From bondage to spiritual faith;

From spiritual faith to great courage;

From great courage to liberty;

From liberty to abundance;

From abundance to selfishness;

From selfishness to complacency;

From complacency to apathy;

From apathy to dependence;

From dependence back again into bondage.