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“Today’s city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.”
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“The population question is the real riddle of the sphinx, to which no political Oedipus has as yet found the answer. In view of the ravages of the terrible monster over-multiplication, all other riddle sink into insignificance.”
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