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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Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Jackson , John Hughlings (1958), Selected writings of John Hughlings Jackson, Retrieved on 2012-06-06Source Material [books.google.com]