"Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men."

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If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures ofits inheritance on new and more stable foundations, there is indeed need for those now living fully to realize how far the decay has already progressed.

— Johan Huizinga