Civilization on TrialThirteen essays and lectures written over a period of years, dealing with many problems. |
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... living has been left sufficiently far behind to be seen by future historians in a revealingly remote perspective , the particu- lar contemporary event with which we are now concerned will stand out like a mountain peak on the horizon of ...
... living has been left sufficiently far behind to be seen by future historians in a revealingly remote perspective , the particu- lar contemporary event with which we are now concerned will stand out like a mountain peak on the horizon of ...
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... living force ; the rather less infrequent ' Herodian ' who escapes submergence becomes a mimic of the living civilization to which he assimilates himself . Neither the one nor the other is in a position to make any creative contribution ...
... living force ; the rather less infrequent ' Herodian ' who escapes submergence becomes a mimic of the living civilization to which he assimilates himself . Neither the one nor the other is in a position to make any creative contribution ...
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... living on in the world of to - day side by side with Christianity : Islam , Hinduism , and the Mahayana form of Buddhism which now prevails in the Far East . You can see the role of Islam as a chrysalis between the ancient civilization ...
... living on in the world of to - day side by side with Christianity : Islam , Hinduism , and the Mahayana form of Buddhism which now prevails in the Far East . You can see the role of Islam as a chrysalis between the ancient civilization ...
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My View of History | 3 |
The Present Point in History | 16 |
Does History Repeat Itself? | 29 |
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