[F]rom the maggot up to man, the universal law of violent destruction of living things is unceasingly fulfilled. The entire earth, continually steeped in blood, is only an immense altar on which every living thing must be immolated without end, without... Isaiah Berlin's Counter-Enlightenment - Page 121edited by - 2003 - 196 pagesFull view - About this book
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...living things is unceasingly fulfilled. The entire earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must...the extinction of evil, until the death of death. 14 1 Genesis 9:6. 12 [The Roman Emperor Nerva was assassinated in 98; King Henry IV of France was assassinated... | |
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