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"...[There] are some ways in which a civilization may die. For civilization is not something inborn or imperishable; it must be acquired anew by every generation, and any serious interruption in its financing and transmission may bring it to an end.  Man differs from the beast only by education, which may be defined as the technique of transmitting civilization...so print and commerce and a thousand ways of communication may bind the civilizations together, and preserve for future cultures all that is of value for them in our own.  Let us, before we die, gather up our heritage, and offer it to our children." ~Will Durant, The Story of Civilization