Opinions differ on the question of whether a golden age is something you can experience while it’s happening or whether it only comes into focus on reflection... no matter how grand and prosperous and momentous the time in which you are living may be, its grandeur is inevitably stained by the incessant drabness of the present.
-Russell Shorto
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