• For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.

  Source: A Distant Mirror

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  American historian 1912-1989
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1. sophisticated
2. technology
3. capacity
4. mental
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