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They have found that the gunpowder of ruins is far the fittest for making other ruins, and so ad infinitum.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “They have found that the gunpowder of ruins is far the fittest for making other ruins, and so ad infinitum.”
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Burke comments on the cyclical nature of destruction and creation in societal change.
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