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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.”
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Bagehot suggests that early advantages can lead to later detrimental consequences, highlighting the complexity of progress.
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