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The author of Freud: A Life for Our Time examines the origins of hatred in middle-class Victorian culture, presenting portraits of Bismarck, Darwin, and others and analyzing the relations between the sexes, demagoguery, and more.

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Every culture, every class, every century, constructs its distinctive alibis for aggression.

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  2. europe
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