Quote of the day
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
Robert Briffault

Born: 1876
Died: December 11, 1948 (aged 72)
Bio: Robert Stephen Briffault MC* was a British surgeon who found fame as a social anthropologist and later in life as a novelist.
Known for:
- The making of humanity (1919)
- Psyche's lamp (1921)
- Decline and fall of the British Empire (1938)
- The mothers
- Sin and sex (1931)