Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.

Use an isotonic saline solution in your neti pot to prevent irritation of your nasal passages.

Walk lightly in the burrows / Of bittersome society.

I think of Spengler and of his terrible pronunciamentos, and I wonder if style, style in the grand manner, is done for.