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... radiation . It is an illuminating way of looking at the histories of civilizations up to a point - but only up to a point . If we take it too seriously and do not discard it when we have made the most of it , it may become an obstacle ...
... radiation . It is an illuminating way of looking at the histories of civilizations up to a point - but only up to a point . If we take it too seriously and do not discard it when we have made the most of it , it may become an obstacle ...
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... radiation has been followed by counter - radiation of influences , what will stand out will be a single great experience , common to the whole of mankind : the experience of having one's parochial social heritage battered to bits by ...
... radiation has been followed by counter - radiation of influences , what will stand out will be a single great experience , common to the whole of mankind : the experience of having one's parochial social heritage battered to bits by ...
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... radiation , like a loose elec- tron or a loose contagious disease , may prove deadly when it is disengaged from the system within which it has been functioning hitherto and is set free to range abroad by itself in a different milieu ...
... radiation , like a loose elec- tron or a loose contagious disease , may prove deadly when it is disengaged from the system within which it has been functioning hitherto and is set free to range abroad by itself in a different milieu ...
Contents
CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL Acknowledgments | 9 |
Preface | 11 |
My View of History | 15 |
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