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                1. Ancient wisdom: Mining destroyed paradise. (accessible text follows)
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                And not only was the rich soil required to furnish corn and due sustenance, but men even descended into the entrails of the earth, and they dug up riches, those incentives to vice,
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              which the earth had hidden and had removed to the Stygian shades. Then destructive iron came forth, and gold, more destructive than iron; then war came forth. Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book I, lines 137–143
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            When the age of decadence arrived, people cut rocks from the mountains, hacking out metals and jades. They extracted the pearls from oysters, and smelted copper and iron ores. After this the multitude of living things multiplied no longer.
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          They slit open the wombs of wild animals, and butchered their young, after which the unicorn roamed about no more. They tipped over the nests of birds and smashed the eggs, after which the phoenix ceased to soar aloft.
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        They extracted fire with rotating drilis, and structured tree trunks into platforms. They hunted by setting the forests ablaze, and fished by draining dry the pools.
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      Next came the demarcation of the hills, rivers, and valleys so that there were territorial boundaries. They reckoned the populations by totals and densities, so that they could be subdivided into units of a given number.
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    They built city walls, dug moats, and installed cunning devices at strategic points so as to be ready for emergencies. They conferred a decorative external appearance on those in government service, and established different grades for the clothes that people might wear.
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      They distinguished between noble status and servile, and differentiated between the virtuous and the unworthy by means of praise and censure bestowing rewards and inflicting punishments.
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        Following this, offensive weapons and defensive armor abounded, and there were divisive conflicts. The destruction of the people, and their affliction by death at an early age . . . arose from this. Book of the Prince of Huainan ( 淮南子) (before 136 BCE)
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