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they get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe."

Alexis de Tocqueville:

"I look upon the size of certain American cities, and especially on the nature of their population as a real danger which threatens the future security of the new world."

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T.S. Eliot Preludes 1910-1912

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He speaks of the "religious intoxication of the great cities." "The pleasure of being in crowds is a mysterious expression of sensual joy in the multiplication of Number"

The intimate journals of Charles Baudelaire p 28 as quoted in Exclamations by Christopher Isherwood Simon + Schuster 1966.

"... now and then there is a bit of city complete with all its inhabitants, that is so organized, so grouped, that the analogy suggests itself to a single nervous system... The line of demarcation between the city and its inhabitants, between houses and people sometimes almost vanishes."

Julian Trevelyan - Mythos - 1937

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Sometimes the hope of finding some distraction would draw him to the boulevards. Leaving the dark alleys exhaling a cool dampness, he would reach the great empty squares, dazzling with light, where statues threw a lacework of black shadow on the edge of the pavement. But the carts and shops began again and the crowds stupefied him - especially on Sundays when, from the Bastille to the Madeleine, an immense flood rippled over the asphalt, in a cloud of dust