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I'm going to try to give you a little bit of a natural history of compassion and the golden rule.
OK so, a quick natural history, first of compassion.
And the good news is that history has naturally expanded these webs of non-zero-sumness, these webs that can be these channels for compassion.
I've got apparently 18 minutes to convince you that history has a direction, an arrow; that in some fundamental sense, it's good; that the arrow points to something positive.
OK? Now, in one sense, the claim that history has a direction is not that controversial.
So, in a way, the question is: on what grounds am I upbeat at all about history?
On balance, I think history is a net positive in the non-zero-sum game department.
And a testament to this is the thing that most amazes me, most impresses me, and most uplifts me, which is that there is a moral dimension to history; there is a moral arrow.
And you have to read your ancient history to realize what a revolution that has been, OK.
"Achilles was a man who could shape history, a man of destiny, and this is what you should be, Alexander."
In fact, those 15 million cellphones are the most connections that any country, including the U.S. and China, has ever established in the history of telecommunications.
And it was the most popular television show in Afghan history.
I had a friend, a history major like me, who was accosted at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, by an anxiously perspiring European saying, "You're Indian, you're Indian!
And to this day remains the only Jewish diaspora in the history of the Jewish people, which has never encountered a single incident of anti-semitism.
Islam came peacefully to the south, slightly more differently complicated history in the north.
You know, we just celebrated, this year, our general elections, the biggest exercise in democratic franchise in human history.
It's the idea of an ever-ever-land, emerging from an ancient civilization, united by a shared history, but sustained, above all, by pluralist democracy.
Now, that shallow history doesn't suggest to me that we have all the answers for all of the challenges that will confront us in the ensuing millennia.
Over a lifetime, through everything, through the Cultural Revolution and everything afterward, he's kept collecting, so that he now has over eight million pieces in his museums documenting contemporary Chinese history.
These are pieces that you won't find anywhere else in the world, in part because they document parts of history Chinese choose to forget.
Astrolabes have an incredible history.
Because 1858 was also watershed year in the history of Asia.
Yet, when we take a step back, and look over the span of history, at what we might call the petroleum interval, it's a short period in history where we've discovered this extraordinary material, and then based a whole way of life around it.
It goes back as long as there is written history.
I know folks said to me they believe it was one of the greatest errors in the history of the United States.
This was not an oral history program.
Agnes de Mille is one of the great choreographers in our history.
I think you matter to God; I think you matter to history; I think you matter to this universe.
And when you write a book that the first sentence of the book is, "It's not about you," then, when all of a sudden it becomes the best-selling book in history, you've got to figure, well, I guess it's not about me.
Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations both ancient and modern.
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