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... institution that can be identified , through a Meso- potamian text , is the urban assembly of all free men . This assembly in turn left the power to deal with current matters in the hands of a group of elders , but in times of emergency ...
... institution that can be identified , through a Meso- potamian text , is the urban assembly of all free men . This assembly in turn left the power to deal with current matters in the hands of a group of elders , but in times of emergency ...
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... institution . The chief non - human species that practice war , with organized armies engaging in deadly combat , are certain varieties of ant . Those social insects some sixty million years ago had invented all the major institutions ...
... institution . The chief non - human species that practice war , with organized armies engaging in deadly combat , are certain varieties of ant . Those social insects some sixty million years ago had invented all the major institutions ...
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... institution , or group . This is not to deny the claims of superior natural endowment , special knowledge , experience , or technical skill : even primitive democratic groups acknowledge some or all of these distinctions . But democracy ...
... institution , or group . This is not to deny the claims of superior natural endowment , special knowledge , experience , or technical skill : even primitive democratic groups acknowledge some or all of these distinctions . But democracy ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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