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... historian - and especially for one born into these times a classical education is , in my belief , a priceless ... historians ; while the prophets and the saints overtop and outlast them all . The ghosts of Agamemnon and Pericles ...
... historian - and especially for one born into these times a classical education is , in my belief , a priceless ... historians ; while the prophets and the saints overtop and outlast them all . The ghosts of Agamemnon and Pericles ...
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... historians looking back on our times even from as short a time hence as A.D. 2047 . What will the historians of A.D. 3047 say ? If we had been living a century ago , I should have had to apologize for the fantastic conceit of pretending ...
... historians looking back on our times even from as short a time hence as A.D. 2047 . What will the historians of A.D. 3047 say ? If we had been living a century ago , I should have had to apologize for the fantastic conceit of pretending ...
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... historians of A.D. 4047 will say that the impact of the Western civilization on its contemporaries , in the second ... historians of A.D. 5047 ? The historians of A.D. 5047 will say , I fancy , that the importance of this social ...
... historians of A.D. 4047 will say that the impact of the Western civilization on its contemporaries , in the second ... historians of A.D. 5047 ? The historians of A.D. 5047 will say , I fancy , that the importance of this social ...
Contents
CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL Acknowledgments | 9 |
Preface | 11 |
My View of History | 15 |
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