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title: "War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly … — Percival Lowell Quote #5 | QuotesBy.net"
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> # War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

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## More from Percival Lowell

1. > That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be.

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2. > So far as thought may peer into the past, the epic of our solar system began with a great catastrophe. Two suns met. What had been, ceased; what was to be, aro…

[Permalink to quote \#6](https://quotesby.net/Percival-Lowell/6/ "Permalink to quote 6")
3. > Formulae are the anaethetics of thought, not its stimulants.

[Permalink to quote \#3](https://quotesby.net/Percival-Lowell/3/ "Permalink to quote 3")

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