'In history, as in nature, birth and death are equally balanced. The decay of overripe forms of civilization is as suggestive a spectacle as the growth of new ones. And occasionally it happens that a period in which one had, hitherto, been mainly looking for the coming to birth of new things, suddenly reveals itself as an epoch of fading and decay'.
From 'The Waning Of The Middle Ages' by J. Huizinga.
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[LESS]'In history, as in nature, birth and death are equally balanced. The decay of overripe forms of civilization is as suggestive a spectacle as the growth of new ones. And occasionally it happens that a period in which one had, hitherto, been mainly looking for the coming to birth of new things, suddenly reveals itself as an epoch of fading and decay'.
From 'The Waning Of The Middle Ages' by J. Huizinga.
World Premiere.
Video Positive Commission.
New Commission.