Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend t…

Charles Lamb
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Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat? ✨ Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1850). The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life, p.292
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