Imagine believing that the fraying of the social fabric (the consequence of growing inequality & regional disparities) can be repaired by having members of the elite be polite to each other.
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"The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to rankling spleen and bigotry ...
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... it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness, and a narrow, jealous, inquisitorial watchfulness over the actions and motives of others.”
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