Chronological snobbery [is] the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited.
C. S. Lewis
Law of Markets
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F.W. Maitland was optimistic about the future: “By slow degrees the thoughts of our forefathers — their common thoughts about common things — will have become thinkable once more.”
Alexis de Tocqueville, less hopeful: “Since the past no longer clarifies the future, the mind moves in shadows.”