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The Spanish, English, and others contributed mightily to the death toll through cruelty, slavery, rape, abuse, starvation, war, and genocide. Europeans killed many native people directly without the assistance of disease. In some instances,
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“there is no more exemption for nations than for individuals from the just retribution due to flagrant and persistent transgression.” But the Civil War’s “tears and blood,” he believed, “may at last bring us to our senses.”33”
― This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
― This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
― The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
― The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
Robert’s 2025 Year in Books
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