Basis of Civilization

It has been said that he who was the first to abuse his fellow-man instead of knocking out his brains without a word, laid thereby the basis of civilisation.

Notes:

Is abusing one another with words instead of killing one another?

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 Selected writings of John Hughlings Jackson
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