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    History: Prescient Belloc

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    Hillaire Belloc concluded a 1927 debate with George Bernard Shaw with this:

    Our civilization

    Is built upon coal,

    Let us chant in rotation

    Our civilization

    That lump of damnation

    Without any soul

    Our civilization

    Is built upon coal.

    In a very few years

    It will float upon oil.

    posted by Peter J. Leithart on Friday, May 9, 2008 at 9:08 pm