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Title: Janus in Modern Life

Author: W. M. Flinders Petrie

Release date: December 1, 2017 [eBook #56095]
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Language: English

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JANUS IN MODERN LIFE

JANUS
IN
MODERN LIFE

BY
W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE
D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., F.B.A., &c.

Fools only learn by their own experience,
Wise men learn by the experience of others.

LONDON:
ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO. LTD.
10 ORANGE STREET, LEICESTER SQUARE W.C.
1907.

"There are two roads to reformation for mankind—one through misfortunes of their own, the other through those of others; the former is the more unmistakable, the latter the less painful.... For it is history, and history alone, which, without involving us in actual danger, will mature our judgment, and prepare us to take right views, whatever may be the crisis or the posture of affairs."

Polybius.