https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Tragedy_and_Hope

Just getting the final summaries of Quiggley’s summaries of the direction of Western and Global Trajectories 18th 19th and 20th Centuries.

Tragedy and Hope.

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The export of material elements in a culture, across its peripheral areas and beyond, to the peoples of totally different societies has strange results. As elements of material culture move from the core to the periphery inside a civilization, they tend, in the long run, to strengthen the periphery at the expense of the core because the core is more hampered in the use of material innovations by the strength of past vested interests and because the core devotes a much greater part of its wealth and energy to nonmaterial culture. Thus, such aspects of the Industrial Revolution as automobiles and radios are European rather than American inventions, but have been developed and utilized to a far greater extent in America because this area was not hampered in their use by surviving elements of feudalism, church domination, of rigid class distinctions (for example, in education),

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The most important parts of Western technology can be listed under four headings:

1. Ability to kill: development of weapons

2. Ability to preserve life: development of sanitation and medical services

3. Ability to produce both food and industrial goods

4. Improvements in transportation and communications

This shows that there has been a sequence, at intervals of about fifty years, of four successive population pressures which might be designated with the following names:

Anglo-French pressure, about 1850

Germanic-Italian pressure, about 1900

Slavic pressure, about 1950

Asiatic pressure, about 2000

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Developments in Western Europe

1. Western ideology

2. Revolution in weapons (especially firearms)

3. Agricultural Revolution

4. Industrial Revolution

5. Revolution in sanitation and medicine

6. Demographic explosion

7. Revolution in transportation and communications

Developments in Asia

1. Revolution in weapons

2. Revolution in transport and communications

3. Revolution in sanitation and medicine

4. Industrial Revolution

5. Demographic explosion

6. Agricultural Revolution

7. And last (if at all), Western ideology

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Chapter 3—Europe’s Shift to the Twentieth Century.

While Europe’s traits were diffusing outward to the non-European world, Europe was also undergoing profound changes and facing difficult choices at home. These choices were associated with drastic changes, in some cases we might say reversals, of Europe’s point of view. These changes may be examined under eight headings. The nineteenth century was marked by;

(1) belief in the innate goodness of man;

(2) secularism;

(3) belief in progress;

(4) liberalism;

(5) capitalism;

(6) faith in science;

(7) democracy;

(8) nationalism. In general, these eight factors went along together in the nineteenth century.

They were generally regarded as being compatible with one another; the friends of one were generally the friends of the others; the enemies of one were generally the enemies of the rest. Metternich and De Maistre were generally opposed to all eight; Thomas Jefferson and John Stuart Mill were generally in favor of all eight.