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“What is even crueler is that, as all the progress of the human species continually moves it farther away from its primitive state; the more new knowledge we accumulate, the more we deprive ourselves of the means of acquiring the most important knowledge of all; so that it is, in a sense, by dint of studying man that we have made ourselves incapable of knowing him.”

Rousseau please stop talking about "les hommes sauvages" I beg you