The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
History is a relay of revolutions.
History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.
I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.
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