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The world is a fast moving place. We are constantly looking for the next greatest, newest thing. In a world that is constantly evolving, we must adapt to the never-ending advances in art, thought, and technology. It is easy to feel excited, yet afraid of what possible trouble our advancements may cause down the road. Harvey identifies two nineteenth-century figures who are crucial to modernity: Marx and Nietzsche. Both of these great minds speak of the irony that went along with modernity. Things are constantly it a state of flux, yet we are completely comfortable living in this environment. Marx said "ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air" (Harvey 1982, 21). I think this quote is depicting how humanity is moving at such a fast pace, and is constantly trying to reinvent ways of doing things. We move on and adapt to the new problems we face in our ever-changing world, and by doing so we almost disregard the old ways of doing things, which may or may not have needed fixing in the first place. We can look back at texts from Nietzsche and Marx that were written in the nineteenth century and still find valuable thoughts that we can still relate to the present day.