Below is the oft-quoted line from Will Durant, which appears in the Epilogue to volume 3 of his Story of Civilization. You may remember it from the beginning of Mel Gibson’s film Apocalypto.
Here’s the context of the passage:
Feeding Mind, Pursuing Truth
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