defines the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the futute is more than a whim of the gods and that men and women are not passive before nature. Until human beings discovered a way across that boundary, the future was a mirror of the past or the murky domain of oracles and soothsayers who held a monopoly pver knowledge of anticipated events."
Source: Against All Odds: The Remarkable Story of Risk, by Peter L. Bernstein, John Wiley Press, 1998.
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