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.
John Hughlings Jackson, Selected writings of John Hughlings Jackson (1958)
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Is abusing one another with words instead of killing one another?
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