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The Better Angels of Our Nature Why Violence Has Declined

Steven Pinker

This groundbreaking book mixes psychology and history to provide a picture of an increasingly nonviolent world. Pinker shows how various forms of violence (war, slavery, infanticide, child abuse, assassinations, deadly quarrels, genocide) have dwindled and are widely condemned.

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The book's concept was mentioned as a reference point regarding how people in previous generations were able to pull the country through crises by working hard.

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And the better angels of our nature, as Abraham Lincoln would say, spoke to enough people that they were able to pull the country through the crisis.

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The book's concept was mentioned as a reference point regarding how people in previous generations were able to pull the country through crises by working hard.

"

And the better angels of our nature, as Abraham Lincoln would say, spoke to enough people that they were able to pull the country through the crisis.

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