If we ever feel discouraged by the apparent constraints on humanity, about its lack of elbowroom and freedom of action, we should think of the Jews and the Greeks, insignificant, powerless, and tiny in the age of the dinosaur empires, yet providing the growing points for the next stage in human destiny.
ATTRIBUTION:
Barbara Ward (1914–1981), British author, educator. Nationalism and Ideology, ch. 5, Norton (1966).
