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... visible god meant prosperity that chiefless tribes were eager to get a chief “ as soon as they could find a nobleman whose high rank or age gave hopes that he would be acceptable to the spirits . " 4 Prosperity and chiefs were ...
... visible god meant prosperity that chiefless tribes were eager to get a chief “ as soon as they could find a nobleman whose high rank or age gave hopes that he would be acceptable to the spirits . " 4 Prosperity and chiefs were ...
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... visible immortality — and so you die . Things have given immortality prob- ably since the rise of the earliest states , but in modern times this one - dimensionality of the level of the visible has run wild . For one thing , the decline ...
... visible immortality — and so you die . Things have given immortality prob- ably since the rise of the earliest states , but in modern times this one - dimensionality of the level of the visible has run wild . For one thing , the decline ...
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... visible and whatever is beyond , and this blindness has permitted him to undertake the impossible to extend the values of his limited visible sphere over all the rest of creation , whatever forms it may take . The tragic evils of ...
... visible and whatever is beyond , and this blindness has permitted him to undertake the impossible to extend the values of his limited visible sphere over all the rest of creation , whatever forms it may take . The tragic evils of ...
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Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
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