Thought For The Day - 12/23/2017

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence:

• From bondage to spiritual faith;
• from spiritual faith to great courage;
• from courage to liberty;
• from liberty to abundance;
• from abundance to selfishness;
• from selfishness to complacency;
• from complacency to apathy;
• from apathy to dependence;
• from dependency back again into bondage.

Sir Alex Fraser Tyler