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Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.

Lewis Mumford

Lewis Mumford (1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher. Technics and Civilization, ch. 6, sct. 11 (1934).

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