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  2. From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
  3. Newsgroups: talk.environment
  4. Subject: rape of nature
  5. Message-ID: <JMC.92Jul27235127@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
  6. Date: 28 Jul 92 04:51:27 GMT
  7. Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
  8. Reply-To: jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU
  9. Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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  12. When someone writes of "the rape of nature", it somehow reminds me of
  13.  
  14.      The Puritans objected to bear baiting not because it gave
  15.      pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the
  16.      spectators. - Thomas Macaulay
  17. --
  18. John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
  19. *
  20. He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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