Excerpt from Challenges to Democracy: The Next Ten YearsRobert oppenheimer has said, One thing that is new is the prevalence of newness - the change in scale and scope of change itself - so that the world alters as we walk in it; so that the years of man's life measure not some small growth or rearrangement or moderation of what he learned in child hood, but a great upheaval. Stanley Morison, when he was editor Of the Times Literary Supplement, said that the pos session of the eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britan nica, published about fifty years ago, was really a wonderful thing, because it reects a world that has totally disappeared.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

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