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called, let civilization be defined as 

 unnatural barbarism. 



I am told that great industries are 

 necessary; that great wheels which 

 catch men now and then and kill 

 them quickly, or if they do not catch 

 them by accident at any rate kill 

 them by degrees, must revolve night 

 and day. Poor, deluded folk are they 

 who tell me this. Must revolve ! Who 

 says so? The needs of men. Bah! 

 Man was just as happy, vastly more 

 healthy, when he rowed across the 

 river in a hollowed log, or swam 

 across, than now when he crosses in a 

 palace car on a steel trestle. 



But mind must be developed; all 

 the progress called civilization de- 

 notes developed mind. Does it? In 

 the aggregate far from it. One 



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