“Cain is completely dissatisfied with the security granted to him by God, and so he searches out his own security. … He will satisfy his desire for eternity by producing children, and he will satisfy his desire for security by creating a place belonging to him, a city.”

Source: The Meaning of the City (1951), pp. 4-5

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French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarch… 1912–1994

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