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— Benjamin Disraeli"The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation."
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What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilisation is a few hundred years old ... an advanced civilisation millions of years old is as much beyond us as we are beyond a bushbaby or a macaque
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