Escape from EvilAn exploration of the natural history of evil. |
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... simple reflex of my own temperament , of what I naturally feel comfortable with . Nor is it a simple function of our uneasy epoch , since it was gathered by the best human minds of many dispositions and epochs , and so I think it can be ...
... simple reflex of my own temperament , of what I naturally feel comfortable with . Nor is it a simple function of our uneasy epoch , since it was gathered by the best human minds of many dispositions and epochs , and so I think it can be ...
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... simple ( or simple - minded ) visions like gorging himself with lamb in a perfumed heaven full of dancing girls , but in much more complex and symbolic ways . Man transcends death not only by continuing to feed his appetites , but ...
... simple ( or simple - minded ) visions like gorging himself with lamb in a perfumed heaven full of dancing girls , but in much more complex and symbolic ways . Man transcends death not only by continuing to feed his appetites , but ...
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... simple and direct : it could be a matter of sheer physical appetite . Some tribes loved the taste of human flesh and incor- porated captive men , women , and children with joy and gusto , with simple stomach motives , we might say — as ...
... simple and direct : it could be a matter of sheer physical appetite . Some tribes loved the taste of human flesh and incor- porated captive men , women , and children with joy and gusto , with simple stomach motives , we might say — as ...
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Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
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