“ By all contemporaneous accounts, the world prior to 1914 seemed to be moving irreversibly toward higher levels of civility and civilization; human society seemed perfectible.
لَقَدْ بَدَا أَنَّ ٱلْمُجْتَمَعَ ٱلْبَشَرِيَّ قَرِيبٌ مِنَ ٱلْكَمَالِ .‏