A war that killed human beings might be tolerable, if it left most of civilizations' industry intact, or at least Restorable, for although men might die, Man lived on, still possessing his precious tools, still capable of producing greater ones.
"Way of a Rebel"
Walter M. Miller
We are aware that in the Fihrist there are partly Arabic, partly Persian, titles of books which have come down to us in a mutilated form, but at the same time some of them have reached us in their correct shapes and others are often easily Restorable.
"Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I"
M. Inostranzev