Escape from EvilAn exploration of the natural history of evil. |
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... nature is fairly complete , and that in any case nothing ever happens unless somebody wants it to happen . So a person slips on mountain path because some powerful dead spirit is jealous of the living , or some witch is secretly working ...
... nature is fairly complete , and that in any case nothing ever happens unless somebody wants it to happen . So a person slips on mountain path because some powerful dead spirit is jealous of the living , or some witch is secretly working ...
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... nature : nature gives freely of its bounty to man - this was the miracle for which to be grateful and beholden and give to the gods of nature in return . Whatever one received was already a gift , and so to keep things in balance one ...
... nature : nature gives freely of its bounty to man - this was the miracle for which to be grateful and beholden and give to the gods of nature in return . Whatever one received was already a gift , and so to keep things in balance one ...
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... nature and those at the last , when they are already - by his analysis- ❝sociable " men and hence corrupted . The Caribs that he lauds as " savages " were hardly in a state of nature , since they were already " sociable " men who knew ...
... nature and those at the last , when they are already - by his analysis- ❝sociable " men and hence corrupted . The Caribs that he lauds as " savages " were hardly in a state of nature , since they were already " sociable " men who knew ...
Contents
Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
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