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Man’s basic aggressiveness is a fact and is the emotional factor for all the bloody violence that has marked human history since the beginning. His technology has never been as perfectly 61 as in the weapons he makes to 62 his brothers. The plough has changed very 63 in design from the time man took 64 cultivation. But swords have not become 65 and the rifle, with which one man kills another, is a 66 in comparison with the stone and 67 with which he used to 68 his adversaries in the earliest stage of civilisation. Nuclear 69 has designs that nature can never 70. They are wonders of technological creation.

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It is summed up in a single word – Man. Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove man from the 41 and the root cause of hunger and 42 is abolished forever. Man is the only 43 that consumes without 44. He does not give milk, he 45 not lay eggs, he is 46 to pull the plough, he cannot run 47 enough to catch rabbits. 48 he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare49 that will prevent them from 50 and the rest he keeps for himself.

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Pythons are 51 non-venomous snakes found 52 in damp places or rocky ledges near marshes or in dense 53. They are considered to be the most primitive54 the living snakes,55 they retain the traces of hind limbs of a 56 era in the form 57 horny claw-like spurs, which are present 58 either side of 59 anus. These hind limbs are functionless 60 female pythons.