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In a few powerful words DA has graphically displayed the Yin and the Yang of Human Culture vs Human Society.

From a recent translation of Sun Tzu's "Art of War":

Beware the scholar.

At a stroke of his brush, your empire rises.

At the next stroke of his brush, your empire falls.

To the scholar, all mankind are but straw-dogs!

Even thousands of years later the poetry of the Bible and the Koran can raise armies. Think of the evil influences of "Das Kapital" 'Mein Kampf' and 'The Little Red Book".

"Uncle Tom's Cabin" was second in popularity to the Bible in the Nineteenth Century.

A probably apocryphal story tells: "......that when Abraham Lincoln met Stowe at the start of the Civil War, Lincoln declared, "So this is the little lady who started this great war." Attribute from Wikipedia in an article about Harriet Beecher Stowe.