Word: millenniums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time since 1900, I was struck by a change of mood. Humanity in general had come to think of itself in a way different from the confident eagerness of a half-century ago. Then everyone was all optimism, inevitable progress still enjoyed some degree of credibility, and the millennium had almost arrived. Man, while not still center of the universe, yet had faith in reason and his own power finally to wrest control of nature from those forces which had remained mysterious till then...