The Same Savage
I have lived many lives through the long ages. Man, the individual, has made no moral progress in the past ten thousand years. I affirm this absolutely. … Under his thin skin of morality which he has had polished onto him, he is the same savage that he was ten thousand years ago.
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Context: Drawing on the past lives he has relived, Standing judges how little human nature has changed.
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Source: Chapter XXII