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Civilization:
“Soon the clichés become sing-song devices by which man easily flicks aside any opposition to his wilfully careless ways. This averted opposition includes those misgivings promulgated by his own subconscious, as well as by expression of other beings. He thinks comfortably of all these parroted formulas as locking up cosmic rules forever within the fireproof warehouse of civilization, whence they may be borrowed for axiomatic relief any time he ‘gets into a pinch,’”
