The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the first time, the stage-scenery of the senses collapsed; the human mind felt itself stripped naked, vibrating in a void of shapeless energies, with resistless mass, colliding, crushing, wasting, and destroying what these same energies had created and labored from eternity to perfect. Henry Adams
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In 1867, Franz Grillparzer wrote the above quote. He was describing the early stages of the Industrial Revolution and how it is a time of great change and conflict. While the world as we know it is not going to end tomorrow, we must embrace the changes that are happening today and be prepared for the changes that will come in the future.

Source: The Education Of Henry Adams

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