Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history.
The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds.
The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.
All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.
There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts.
Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.