I'm reading Lewis Mumford's Myth of the Machine.
Here is a quote with a certain degree of chill and truth off from page 239.
"From the earliest times, as Mircea Eliade points out, blood sacrifice had been a ritual accompaniment of metallurgy. The curse of war and the curse of mining are almost interchangeable: united in death."
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