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65: Ibn Khaldun - The Muqaddimah

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The Social Structure of the Kingdom of God

There's a beautiful set of lines about this process in section 21 of chapter 2 where Caldoon again treats the issue of the social structure like sort of a vital organism with a vigorous youthful beginning and that like responsible button down middle age and then senility and death. He writes that, quote, time gets the upper hand over the group in power. Time feasts on them as their energy is exhausted by well-being and their vigor drained by the nature of luxury. Luxury wears out royal authority and overthrows it. This is how God proceeds with his servants and creatures. All this has its origin and group feeling, which differs in different groups.

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