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Steven Pinker – Enlightenment now: the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress Steven Pinker Enlightenment now: the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress book

For most of human history, war was the natural pastime of governments, peace a mere respite between wars.

Steven Pinker, Enlightenment now: the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress, New York, 2018, p. 157