"There is no salvation for us but..." - Quote by Mark Twain
There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.
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“Through the din and desultoriness of noon, even in the most Oriental city, is seen the fresh and primitive and savage nature, in which Scythians and Ethiopians and Indians dwell. What is echo, what are light and shade, day and night, ocean and stars, earthquake and eclipse, there? The works of man are everywhere swallowed up in the immensity of nature. The AEgean Sea is but Lake Huron still to the Indian.”
“Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.”
“...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.”