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 complaceny to
apathy;
from apathy to dependence;
from dependency back again into
bondage.
