Defined Arms

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“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)

“In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.”
—Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)