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Virgil, the Roman, dreamt of universal peace. Many today entertain the same dream but at the same time they are contradicted by piled-up evidences of the violence in human nature, the strife engendered by blind self-interest, the killing instinct that is a heritage from the animal.

-- Notebooks Category 11: The Negatives > Chapter 3 : Their Presence in The World > # 167