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But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religious, Agriculture, Soil
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.149, Harvard University Press
But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.