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We live, today, in an anxious world. Later generations will probably see our age as a time of transition from one social order to another, as we find the Middle Ages a “middle” between the Graeco-Roman civilization and the full-fledged European. But we cannot see the present that way, because what we are moving towards does not yet exist, and we can have no picture of it. Nor is the ascendancy of Europe—the concert of nations consisting of white people and their economic culture roughly coextensive with Christendom—as yet a finished act in history; but its form is broken. We feel ourselves swept along in a violent passage from a world we cannot salvage to one we cannot see, and most people are afraid.

Susanne K. Langer, Philosophical Sketches