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Only those who refuse the lessons of mankind's historic past can suppose that peace, which it has never had for more than short periods, will suddenly bloom all over the earth and remain here continuously, in defiance of the violent and destructive instincts which still lurk in mankind.

-- Notebooks Category 11: The Negatives > Chapter 3 : Their Presence in The World > # 372