African Spir Quote

What determinate events is, beside national, dynastic and particular egoism, the instinct of domination and conquest, in one word, force. Judging by the history of humanity, harms that men have had to suffer, harms that men have to suffer by their nature are minute in comparison to these they inflict to each others. The most fantastic imagination might not fabricate some cruelties, injustices and perfidies that men have not exceeded in practice.

p. 55. - Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937)