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If this is the best civilisation can do, savagery would be better than the machine and the Abyss
Drawn from what Jack London said
What Jack London actually said
- Jack London American novelist and journalist (1876 to 1916)
If this is the best that civilisation can do for the human, then give us howling and naked savagery. Far better to be a people of the wilderness and desert, of the cave and the squatting-place, than to be a people of the machine and the Abyss.
Where this was said
↗The People of the Abyss (1903)gutenberg.org
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