 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
They ( = Those who upheld duelling) forgot, as present upholders of war forget, that what is called 'human nature' is, in the main, the result of custom and tradition and education, and, in civilized men, only a very tiny fraction is due to primitive instinct. If the world could live for a few generations without war, war would come to seem as absurd as duel ling has come to seem to us.
Source: Has Man a Future? 1961.
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