Civilization on TrialThirteen essays and lectures written over a period of years, dealing with many problems. |
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... nature of society and in the nature of man . Society is , after all , only the common ground between the fields of action of a number of personalities , and human personality , at any rate as we know it in this world , has an innate ...
... nature of society and in the nature of man . Society is , after all , only the common ground between the fields of action of a number of personalities , and human personality , at any rate as we know it in this world , has an innate ...
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... natural goodness as , and no lesser wickedness than , the highest civilizations or religious societies that have yet come into existence . There has been no perceptible variation in the average sample of human nature in the past ; there ...
... natural goodness as , and no lesser wickedness than , the highest civilizations or religious societies that have yet come into existence . There has been no perceptible variation in the average sample of human nature in the past ; there ...
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... nature . This , however , is a side issue ; for the impressiveness of the evidence for progress in this particular field is matched by the obvious- ness of the fact that man is relatively good at dealing with non - human nature . What ...
... nature . This , however , is a side issue ; for the impressiveness of the evidence for progress in this particular field is matched by the obvious- ness of the fact that man is relatively good at dealing with non - human nature . What ...
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My View of History | 3 |
The Present Point in History | 16 |
Does History Repeat Itself? | 29 |
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