Escape from EvilAn exploration of the natural history of evil. |
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Page 85
... wonder economic equality is beyond the endurance of modern democratic man : the house , the car , the bank balance are his im- mortality symbols . Or , put another way , if a black man moves next door , it is not merely that your house ...
... wonder economic equality is beyond the endurance of modern democratic man : the house , the car , the bank balance are his im- mortality symbols . Or , put another way , if a black man moves next door , it is not merely that your house ...
Page 88
... wonder that early converts to Christianity could renounce everything in a decisive way that today seems strangely self- sacrificial to us . We are not in the same bind . We have completely eclipsed the tension of the invisible - visible ...
... wonder that early converts to Christianity could renounce everything in a decisive way that today seems strangely self- sacrificial to us . We are not in the same bind . We have completely eclipsed the tension of the invisible - visible ...
Page 164
... wonder why youth has abandoned the churches , not wanting to realize that it is precisely because organized religion openly subscribes to a commercial- industrial hero system that is almost openly defunct ; it so obviously denies ...
... wonder why youth has abandoned the churches , not wanting to realize that it is precisely because organized religion openly subscribes to a commercial- industrial hero system that is almost openly defunct ; it so obviously denies ...
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Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
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