Jack London Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916
Birthday: January 12
Death: November 22
Life creeps slowly upward.... When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood and found that it was good and thereafter made a practice of smiting rivals and enemies with branches of wood, then, and on that day, artificiality may be said to have begun. Then, and on that day, was begun a revolution destined to change the history of life. Then, and on that day, was laid the cornerstone of that most tremendous of artifices, CIVILIZATION!
source: Jack London (2014). “The Kempton-Wase Letters”, p.75, Simon and Schuster
topic: Practice, Civilization, Enemy, Artificiality, History Of Life
