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... plane of ideas and ideologies , Russia and America cannot so easily avoid crossing each other's path by staying at home and each cultivating her own ample garden . On this plane , the social climates of the two great powers will ...
... plane of ideas and ideologies , Russia and America cannot so easily avoid crossing each other's path by staying at home and each cultivating her own ample garden . On this plane , the social climates of the two great powers will ...
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... plane , like our successive economic and political and aes- thetic and religious revolutions in the West , has taken place on all these planes simultaneously and has thereby con- vulsed the whole life of the Turkish people from the ...
... plane , like our successive economic and political and aes- thetic and religious revolutions in the West , has taken place on all these planes simultaneously and has thereby con- vulsed the whole life of the Turkish people from the ...
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... plane on to the spiritual plane . Some light on this next chapter of the story , which for us still lies in the future , may be found in the history of the world's earlier encounter with Greece and Rome . But , before looking at that ...
... plane on to the spiritual plane . Some light on this next chapter of the story , which for us still lies in the future , may be found in the history of the world's earlier encounter with Greece and Rome . But , before looking at that ...
Contents
CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL Acknowledgments | 9 |
Preface | 11 |
My View of History | 15 |
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