“Those societies which give their infants the greatest amount of physical affection were characterized by low theft, low infant physical pain, low religious activity, and negligible or absent killing, mutilating, or torturing of the enemy.”
"Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence" (1975)
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“Societies which inflict pain and discomfort upon their infants tend to neglect them as well.”
"Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence" (1975)

Source: The Emotional Life of Nations (2002), Ch. 7, pp. 276-277.

The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1625), Of Death