Word: squalorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speaking of the history in Homer's works, he said, "We see the germs of many modern institutions, government, home life, and kinship between God and man in his poetry. All nature is alive and free: splendor and squalor, kindness and savage disposition are found side by side...
...with the West will spell her ruin, even as materialistic progress spelled ruin for the other great civilizations of history. This argument deserves weight, but clearly falls to envisage all the facts. The picture painted of a peaceful country sufficient unto itself falls to show in the background the squalor and poverty of the basic population, the bare existence in normal times and the plagues and famines of the years. China, it is true, has lived for centuries clearly independent of the outer world. But she has been unable to meet the demands of an intensive population, the check...