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Abstract
"What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and
repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and
peculiarities, by eliminating different civilisations and cultures, progress weakens
life and favours death. The ideal of a single civilisation for everyone implicit in
the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the
world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility
of life!"