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... totalitarian and quasi - totalitarian governments . The handsomest encomium for such creatures is : " They do not make trouble . " Their highest virtue is : " They do not stick their necks out . " Ultimately , such a society pro- duces ...
... totalitarian and quasi - totalitarian governments . The handsomest encomium for such creatures is : " They do not make trouble . " Their highest virtue is : " They do not stick their necks out . " Ultimately , such a society pro- duces ...
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... totalitarian countries today , the sense of being the healthy exponents of a new form of life . This is but a momentary illusion . The totalitarian drug is as fatal as the infection it arrests . Thus the inertia of " progress " today ...
... totalitarian countries today , the sense of being the healthy exponents of a new form of life . This is but a momentary illusion . The totalitarian drug is as fatal as the infection it arrests . Thus the inertia of " progress " today ...
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... totalitarian countries . In an active or latent state , nihilism is at work throughout our civilization . This brings us to another set of symptoms that indicate the gen- eral breakdown in Western civilization . In many areas , we are ...
... totalitarian countries . In an active or latent state , nihilism is at work throughout our civilization . This brings us to another set of symptoms that indicate the gen- eral breakdown in Western civilization . In many areas , we are ...
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THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF | 92 |
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