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The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
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All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
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We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.
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The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
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Born:
February 2, 1859
Died:
July 8, 1939
(aged 80)
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