Part One, Chapter XII
Decline and Fall (1928)
“We all have kindly impulses, fostered by two thousand years of Christian teaching, gentle Jesus, and love thy neighbour, but we have the killer instinct, too, the murderous impulse of the hunter…”
Source: Quartered Safe Out Here (1992), p. 175.
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