Seeing with new eyes speeds up the process of change

I was looking at a book the other day and these words caught my attention:

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"there are some periods where creative and disruptive

forces reach maturity and combine to speed up

the normal process of change. We encounter the

clash and the fusion of old and new on every side,

in science and religion, politics and economics,

law and literature, music and architecture.

It is the impact of modernism upon medievalism

which gives the age its peculiar character. ........

it was in the name of conservative tradition

that the great rebellion in politics and religion was conducted."

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Now the question is when was this written and for what time period was this message intended. I have for the purpose of showing some clues as to "when" posted pictures of the shelf just about this computer. It could of course be about the 1920's or the 1950's or the 1960's or even the 1980's. Maybe this fits the last half of the 1800's. As a matter of fact I find the last half of the 1800's fascinating. Lincoln being at the center point of this time of change. Some might find the age of the computer in the late 90's and today to be a central point. Maybe it was just a few days ago when I just figured a poem of my own was fine. Who knows................

Well the book, as you will see in the picture, was "English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century 1600 - 1660.

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Proust
The real voyage of discovery consists
not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes.