Escape from EvilAn exploration of the natural history of evil. |
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... enemy ; often it was a kind of disorganized , childish , almost hysterical game in which one went into rapture if he brought back a trophy or a single enemy for torture . Anyone was liable to be snatched out of his hut at daybreak , and ...
... enemy ; often it was a kind of disorganized , childish , almost hysterical game in which one went into rapture if he brought back a trophy or a single enemy for torture . Anyone was liable to be snatched out of his hut at daybreak , and ...
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... enemy , your life is affirmed because it proves that the gods favor you . The whole philosophy is summed up in the lines from a typical " western " movie , when the Indians come upon a cavalry officer and the leader says , " Let's see ...
... enemy , your life is affirmed because it proves that the gods favor you . The whole philosophy is summed up in the lines from a typical " western " movie , when the Indians come upon a cavalry officer and the leader says , " Let's see ...
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... enemy is mortal : " Look how we kill him . " As Alan Harrington so well put it , in a remarkable book which contains the most brilliantly pungent phras- ings of ( Rankian ) insights that one is ever likely to see : ... Cruelty can arise ...
... enemy is mortal : " Look how we kill him . " As Alan Harrington so well put it , in a remarkable book which contains the most brilliantly pungent phras- ings of ( Rankian ) insights that one is ever likely to see : ... Cruelty can arise ...
Contents
Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
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