Providence, predestination and progress: or, did the Enlightenment fail?

From: Albion | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Clark, J.C.D. | Copyright information

Early in 2002, the earth experienced a near-miss: an asteroid passed within a whisker (in astronomical terms) of the planet. (1) Had it struck, it would have done so with a force six hundred times greater than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. No observer saw it coming, and it was tracked only after it had passed; yet this event produced little surprise. We already knew that the secure foundations of modernism had moved beneath our feet: the idea of continental drift; then pollution; ...

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