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The majority of the 'groups' which win and conquer are better than the majority of those which fail and perish, and thus the first world grow better and was improved.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot asserts that the groups that succeed are generally superior to those that fail, leading to overall improvement in the world.
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