A Thing Still to Be Won
They complacently assumed a necessary progress towards which they had no moral responsibility. They did not realise that this security of progress was a thing still to be won — or lost, and that the time to win it was a time that passed.
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Context: The narrator looks back on the confidence of the early twentieth century.
Not in a duel yet
Source: Chapter XI. The Great Collapse