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Page 139
... leader and the group , they are trying to qualify for absolute goodness and purity so as to be worthy of being ... leader ( say , the Allied cause in World War II ) or whether the leader himself gave form and continuity to the cause ...
... leader and the group , they are trying to qualify for absolute goodness and purity so as to be worthy of being ... leader ( say , the Allied cause in World War II ) or whether the leader himself gave form and continuity to the cause ...
Page 154
... leader- heroes , and so salvation had to be mediated to them by these figures . In a primitive hunting band or a tribe the leader cannot compel anyone to go to war ; in the kingship and the state the subjects have no choice . They now ...
... leader- heroes , and so salvation had to be mediated to them by these figures . In a primitive hunting band or a tribe the leader cannot compel anyone to go to war ; in the kingship and the state the subjects have no choice . They now ...
Page 167
... leader is actually in a state of limited responsibility to human beings in this world — and what power he has in ... leaders to be like : persons who abstracted and objected least , who took each single life and its suffering full in the ...
... leader is actually in a state of limited responsibility to human beings in this world — and what power he has in ... leaders to be like : persons who abstracted and objected least , who took each single life and its suffering full in the ...
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Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
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