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“So let the satirists deride as much as they like the doings of mankind, let theologians revile them, and let misanthropists heap praise on the life of rude rusticity, despising man and admiring beasts. Men will still discover from experience that they can much more easily meet their needs by mutual help and can ward of ever-threatening perils only by joining forces”