{"id":31324,"date":"2023-08-21T08:28:15","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T13:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=31324"},"modified":"2023-08-20T13:34:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T18:34:14","slug":"from-the-durant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/21\/from-the-durant\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Durant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Our Oriental Heritage<\/em> page 265:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For barbarism is always around civilization, amid it and beneath it, rady to engulf it by arms, or mass migration, or unchecked fertility.  Barbarism is like the jungle; it never admits its defeat; it waits patiently for centuries to recover the territory it lost.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In this volume, the first, this will be a recurring theme.  This starts the chapter on Assyria, the barbarians in the equation, about to pounce on the remains of Babylon.<\/p>\n<p>Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.  Those who know history issue unheeded warnings to the ignorant and are ignored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Oriental Heritage page 265: For barbarism is always around civilization, amid it and beneath it, rady to engulf it by arms, or mass migration, or unchecked fertility. Barbarism is like the jungle; it never admits its defeat; it waits patiently for centuries to recover the territory it lost. In this volume, the first, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-durant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31325,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31324\/revisions\/31325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}