New Era

[138] If we step out into the open, our horizon expands dramactically. […] …the infinity of historical existence.

The lightning has passed, but the vision remains. Our generation, and perhaps many to come, will live in a world that was revealed by this vision. In a religious history such events are usually termed revelations. […] Of course, we would not be human if we did not search for the Promised Land along different roads. The fierce struggle between worldviews which is raging around us revolves basically interpretations of the revelation.

[139]

[140] …every philosophising soul is becoming more or less conscious [of this new way to see time and history] but which is also germinating in the simplest men, will prove to be one of the most important legacies of the generation of the world war.

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Reference:
Original Publication: “Új idöszámitás”, Bécsi Magyar Újság, 10 October 1922
KPA: 01/50, 20 (1 p. ; original)
Recent Publication in English: in Polanyi 2016, p. 138-140
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