Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipat…

Robert Green Ingersoll
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Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of passion? Is not that man civilized whose reason sits the crowned monarch of his brain - whose passions are his servants? ✨ Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). The works of Robert G. Ingersoll, p.1778, Library of Alexandria
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