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War is, after all, the universal perversion. We are all tainted: if we cannot experience our perversion at first hand we spend our time reading war stories, the pornography of war; or seeing war films, the blue films of war; or titillating our senses with the imagination of great deeds, the masturbation of war.
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When engaged in safe occupations, and living in healthy countries, men are much more apt to be frugal, than in unhealthy, or hazardous occupations, and in climates pernicious to human life. Sailors and soldiers are prodigals.... War and pestilence have always waste and luxury, among the other evils that follow in their train.
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Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
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John Rae
Born:
March 20, 1931
Died:
December 16, 2006
(aged 75)
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Dr. John Rae was a British educator, author and novelist. He was headmaster of Taunton School and then Head Master of Westminster School.
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