Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii, Oil on canvas, 1784"He had long dispaired of witnessing a Greeklike struggle. Such things would be no more, he had said. Men were better, or more timid. Secular and religious education had effaced the throat-grappling instinct, or else firm finance held in check the passions."
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
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