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... living has been left sufficiently far behind to be seen by future historians in a revealingly remote perspective , the particu- lar contemporary event with which we are now concerned will stand out like a mountain peak on the horizon of ...
... living has been left sufficiently far behind to be seen by future historians in a revealingly remote perspective , the particu- lar contemporary event with which we are now concerned will stand out like a mountain peak on the horizon of ...
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... living the comfortable uneventful life which , at that time , had come to be taken for granted , as though it were the birthright of man , by that small and exceptionally privileged fraction of the living generation of mankind that was ...
... living the comfortable uneventful life which , at that time , had come to be taken for granted , as though it were the birthright of man , by that small and exceptionally privileged fraction of the living generation of mankind that was ...
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... living force ; the rather less infrequent " Herodian " who escapes submergence becomes a mimic of the living civilization to which he assimilates himself . Neither the one nor the other is in a position to make any creative contribution ...
... living force ; the rather less infrequent " Herodian " who escapes submergence becomes a mimic of the living civilization to which he assimilates himself . Neither the one nor the other is in a position to make any creative contribution ...
Contents
CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL Acknowledgments | 9 |
Preface | 11 |
My View of History | 15 |
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