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Will Durant

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

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Will Durant is saying that Americans know a lot about what happens in a single day but lack deep understanding of long-term history. He highlights a gap between current knowledge and awareness of events over thousands of years.

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