Civilization is such a grand word isn't it? But I think we've seen, its true strength lies as much in simple gifts, pots and prints and rugs and carvings, as it does in mighty building and fine paintings, and those things spring less from the officious demands of state and the status hungers of the rich. than they do from the unruly urges of gifted artists from one end of the world to the other to make something for everyone. And, because those things are not dependent on the fate of empires, whether moneyed or military, I think they will stick around, they will endure,not forever, nothing survives forever, but at any rate for the next millennia, as unmistakable evidence of the best things that our species was capable of creating. Things that have been made by the liberated thought, the acute vision and the unquestionable creative fire of our shared humanity.
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