The modern consciousness and the winged chariot

Arthur M. Schlesinger

pp. 265-288

in: Bernard S. Gorman, Alden E. Wessman (eds), The personal experience of time, Berlin, Springer, 1977

Abstract

We are living in a world and time of apparently incessant intellectual revolution, a permanent revolution in a profounder sense than Trotsky ever envisaged, rushing us on past landmark, guidepost, and certitude into a world and time beyond our control and imagining.