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... origin of inequality among men ! This was the question that excited thinkers of the eighteenth century as they ... Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men " ( 1755 ) . In that essay he reasoned out how man had gradually fallen ...
... origin of inequality among men ! This was the question that excited thinkers of the eighteenth century as they ... Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men " ( 1755 ) . In that essay he reasoned out how man had gradually fallen ...
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... origin of inequality , he places wealth at the last stage and “ personal qualities " at the first stage : it is personal qualities that give rise to distinctions of rank and power , and " wealth is the last to which they are reduced in ...
... origin of inequality , he places wealth at the last stage and “ personal qualities " at the first stage : it is personal qualities that give rise to distinctions of rank and power , and " wealth is the last to which they are reduced in ...
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... origin in magic amulets or tokens , as Brown - basing himself on Laum - understood . The noted historian G. Eliot Smith put together an interesting speculation on the origin of gold as a thing of great value in an- cient Egypt . What ...
... origin in magic amulets or tokens , as Brown - basing himself on Laum - understood . The noted historian G. Eliot Smith put together an interesting speculation on the origin of gold as a thing of great value in an- cient Egypt . What ...
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Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
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