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The insensibility to human suffering, which is so striking a fact in the world as it stood when history first reveals it, is doubtless due to the warlike origin of the old civilisation.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot attributes the insensitivity to human suffering in early civilization to its warlike origins.
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