keannu
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I can't even get a glimpse of the meaning. This is too abstract, especially the underlined. After reading this, can you conclude what destroyed nineteenth-century civilization?
pr26
ex)Nineteenth-century civilization was not destroyed by the external or internal attack of barbarians; its vitality was not weakened by the devastations of World War I nor by the rebellion of a socialist proletariat. Its failure was not the outcome of some alleged laws of economics such as that of falling rate of profit or of underconsumption or overproduction. It disintegrated as the result of an entirely different set of causes; the measures which society adopted in order not to be, in its turn, destroyed utterly by the action of the self-regulating market. Apart from exceptional circumstances, the conflict between the market and the elementary requirements of an organized social life provided the century with its dynamics and produced the typical strains and stresses which ultimately destroyed that society. External wars merely hastened its destruction.
pr26
ex)Nineteenth-century civilization was not destroyed by the external or internal attack of barbarians; its vitality was not weakened by the devastations of World War I nor by the rebellion of a socialist proletariat. Its failure was not the outcome of some alleged laws of economics such as that of falling rate of profit or of underconsumption or overproduction. It disintegrated as the result of an entirely different set of causes; the measures which society adopted in order not to be, in its turn, destroyed utterly by the action of the self-regulating market. Apart from exceptional circumstances, the conflict between the market and the elementary requirements of an organized social life provided the century with its dynamics and produced the typical strains and stresses which ultimately destroyed that society. External wars merely hastened its destruction.