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Iron and corn, not gold and silver, are what civilised humanity and ruined it

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  1. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Genevan philosopher and writer (1712 to 1778)
    With the poet, it is gold and silver, but with the philosopher it is iron and corn, which have civilized men, and ruined mankind.

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    ↗A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind (1755; Harvard Classics translation)gutenberg.org

    c. 1754–1755

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