All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Havelock Ellis

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Civilization Revolution

Author

Havelock Ellis

Source

Little Essays of Love and Virtue

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Physician Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Ellis, Havelock. Little Essays of Love and Virtue. George H. Doran Company/A & C Black, 1922, ch. 7.

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Medium
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Genre
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Language
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Time
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Proust, Marcel. La Prisonnière [The Prisoner]. Paris: Gallimard, 1923.

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Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

Edmund Burke

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Source
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Genre
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Statement Type
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Language
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Time
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Era
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Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. London: James Dodsley, 1790.

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