Sublime

consider the central idea pervading this struggle,” he told Hay in early May, “is the necessity that is upon us, of proving that popular government is not an absurdity. We must settle this question now, whether in a free government the minority have the right to break up the government whenever they choose. If we fail it will go far to prove the in

The nation called for a leader of magnanimity and force of purpose—it

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

History is often shaped by small groups of forward-looking innovators rather than by the backward-looking masses.