Escape from EvilAn exploration of the natural history of evil. |
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Page 33
... experience of an organism which can apprehend a totality of things and not be able to move in relation to it . Man experiences this uniquely as a feeling of the crushing awesomeness of things and his helplessness in the face of them ...
... experience of an organism which can apprehend a totality of things and not be able to move in relation to it . Man experiences this uniquely as a feeling of the crushing awesomeness of things and his helplessness in the face of them ...
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... experience of fear and powerlessness , then immersing oneself in a group is one way of actively defeating it ... experience of prestige and power that constitutes man a hero , and the experience of expiation that 36 ESCAPE FROM EVIL.
... experience of fear and powerlessness , then immersing oneself in a group is one way of actively defeating it ... experience of prestige and power that constitutes man a hero , and the experience of expiation that 36 ESCAPE FROM EVIL.
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... experience of the physicalness of life obsesses him . Modern missionaries found that the notion of sin was difficult to translate to primitives , who had no word for it ; we understand now that they had little experience of isolation or ...
... experience of the physicalness of life obsesses him . Modern missionaries found that the notion of sin was difficult to translate to primitives , who had no word for it ; we understand now that they had little experience of isolation or ...
Contents
Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
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