Civilization on TrialThirteen essays and lectures written over a period of years, dealing with many problems. |
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... failed to prevent the underlying strata from surviving , more or less intact , and clothing themselves with spring flowers on exposure to the light and air . And when one society has collapsed in one quarter of the world it has not , in ...
... failed to prevent the underlying strata from surviving , more or less intact , and clothing themselves with spring flowers on exposure to the light and air . And when one society has collapsed in one quarter of the world it has not , in ...
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... failed to achieve its purpose . And the old political anarchy in the relations between the sovereign independent Greek city - states broke out again under new economic conditions which made this anarchy not merely harmful but deadly ...
... failed to achieve its purpose . And the old political anarchy in the relations between the sovereign independent Greek city - states broke out again under new economic conditions which made this anarchy not merely harmful but deadly ...
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... failure was accentuated by the Royal Society's simultaneous success . The Jesuits failed to convert the Hindus and Chinese to the Roman Catholic form of Western Christianity . They failed , though they had discovered the psychological ...
... failure was accentuated by the Royal Society's simultaneous success . The Jesuits failed to convert the Hindus and Chinese to the Roman Catholic form of Western Christianity . They failed , though they had discovered the psychological ...
Contents
My View of History | 3 |
The Present Point in History | 16 |
Does History Repeat Itself? | 29 |
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