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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?

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    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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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
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