Civilization on TrialThirteen essays and lectures written over a period of years, dealing with many problems. |
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... thing with a closeness and thoroughness which is , most certainly , much better than the way in which one reads a newspaper en route to one's office . This is a lesson which is never to be forgotten , but it is not the last lesson to be ...
... thing with a closeness and thoroughness which is , most certainly , much better than the way in which one reads a newspaper en route to one's office . This is a lesson which is never to be forgotten , but it is not the last lesson to be ...
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... thing than it was in the last century B.C. And the people who felt like this in that later age sought salvation in archaism : in a deliberate attempt at an artificial resurrection of past happiness and beauty and greatness . One can ...
... thing than it was in the last century B.C. And the people who felt like this in that later age sought salvation in archaism : in a deliberate attempt at an artificial resurrection of past happiness and beauty and greatness . One can ...
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... thing in human life is not the spiritual development of souls but the social de- velopment of communities . In the writer's opinion , this thesis is not true , and , when it has been taken as true and has been put into action , it has ...
... thing in human life is not the spiritual development of souls but the social de- velopment of communities . In the writer's opinion , this thesis is not true , and , when it has been taken as true and has been put into action , it has ...
Contents
My View of History | 3 |
The Present Point in History | 16 |
Does History Repeat Itself? | 29 |
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