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generated fierce intensities and new hybrid energies from
accelerated interplay of functions and knowledge. It burst forth
into aggression. The alarm of the village, followed by the
resistance of the city, expanded into the exhaustion and inertia
of empire. These three stages of the disease and irritation
syndrome were felt, by those living through them, as normal
physical expressions of counter-irritant recovery from disease.
The third stage of struggle for equilibrium among the
forces within the city took the form of empire, or a universal
state, that generated the extension of human senses in wheel,
road, and alphabet. We can sympathize with those who first
saw in these tools a providential means of bringing order to
distant areas of turbulence and anarchy. These tools would
have seemed a glorious form of “foreign aid,” extending the
blessings of the centre to the barbarian margins. At this