Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find…

Lewis Mumford
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Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act. ✨ LEWIS MUMFORD (1961). THE CITY IN HISTORY
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