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Escaping from small tribal groupings into knowledge is the basis of civilisation.
Drawn from what Murray Pittock said
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- Murray Pittock Scottish historian and cultural scholar
Humankind long lived in small adversarial tribal groupings. Escaping from these into knowledge is the basis of civilisation.
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