The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played …

John Maynard Keynes
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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy. ✨ John Maynard Keynes (2016). The Economic Consequences of the Peace, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy. ✨ John Maynard Keynes (2016). The Economic Consequences of the Peace, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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