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With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
Bertrand Russell

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Date of Birth:
May 18, 1872
Date of Death:
February 2, 1970
Nationality:
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