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"Propaganda is the art of nearly deceiving one's friends without quite deceiving one's enemies." F. M. Cornford once offered this as an offhand explanation of what he believed propaganda to be. In reality, the human behavior of propaganda has grown from its origination into a complex web of technique and strategy. It can be traced back to as early as written accounts could have been taken, such as the Arthashastra, which was written around the 4th century BCE. Written by Chanakya, it discussed propaganda in a variety of aspects.
As one looks through history's timeline, propaganda can be observed to have spread from the Maurya Empire of ancient India into the writings of Romans, such as Livy. This may not specifically mean propaganda originated in India and then spread out past Rome and so forth, but offers the point that it is a human behavior which has roots in the earliest years of human civilization. It became blatantly public, though, during World War II with the Nazi......

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