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“Abortion has replaced infanticide in some parts of the world. Spanking has dropped out of the parental armoury, while sadism has achieved tolerance, even a certain respectability.”

“People had free will, and could (and did) choose to resist some or all of these trends, but across thousands of years, groups that moved towards ‘growth-friendly’ institutions and values—including patriarchy, hierarchy, and slavery, as well as literacy and high culture—replaced those that did not.”