Michael Hamilton Morgan

Loss is a defending human experience.

Michael Hamilton Morgan (born 1951) is a political scientist and a novelist and non-fiction author from the US. He wrote a book named Lost History and Arabia: The Golden Ages.

Quotes

• Loss is a defending human experience. Nothing in the physical world lasts forever. Memory of what has been lost can be both ennobling and painful.
  • Lost History, p. 1

History teaches us that civilizations flourish, die and disappear. Sometimes they died swiftly, sometimes in a slow lingering death.

• History teaches us that civilizations flourish, die and disappear. Sometimes they died swiftly, sometimes in a slow lingering death. And sometimes, as with Rome and others, echoes of that civilization find new life in later cultures. To lose the conscious memory of an entire civilization is especially tragic and dangerous, because each civilization, no matter how grand or flawed, is a laboratory of human ideas and ideals, of dreams and nightmares. We can learn from all of them.
  • Lost History, p. 1

External links

• Michael Hamilton Morgan: Lost History; The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists, Washington D.C, 2007