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Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.

Source: The New Science, bk. 1, para. 241, ed. 1744; tr. 1984.
-- Giambattista Vico, (Jun 23 1668-1744), Italian philosopher; He is recognized today as a forerunner of cultural anthropology, or ethnology.

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