A Study of History: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI, by D.C. SomervellOxford University Press, 1947 - 617 páginas Donated by Sydney Harris. |
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... Religion The ' higher religions ' with a mission to all mankind are rela- tively recent arrivals on the scene of human history . Not only are they unknown in primitive societies ; they have not arisen even among societies in process of ...
... Religion The ' higher religions ' with a mission to all mankind are rela- tively recent arrivals on the scene of human history . Not only are they unknown in primitive societies ; they have not arisen even among societies in process of ...
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... religion has been preached . This fanatical temper flared up in the abortive attempt of the Emperor Ikhnaton to impose his vision of monotheism on the Egyptiac World in the fourteenth century B.C. An equally ardent fanaticism casts its ...
... religion has been preached . This fanatical temper flared up in the abortive attempt of the Emperor Ikhnaton to impose his vision of monotheism on the Egyptiac World in the fourteenth century B.C. An equally ardent fanaticism casts its ...
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... religion is apt to breed . The nemesis of its absence is a choice between the enormity of persecution or a revolutionary revulsion against religion itself . Such a revulsion is expressed in the most famous line of Lucretius : Tantum ...
... religion is apt to breed . The nemesis of its absence is a choice between the enormity of persecution or a revolutionary revulsion against religion itself . Such a revulsion is expressed in the most famous line of Lucretius : Tantum ...
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2 Progress towards Selfdetermination | 1 |
THE GENESES OF CIVILIZATIONS | 48 |
Creative Minorities | 230 |
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Otras 16 secciones no mostradas
Términos y frases comunes
achieved alien already Anatolia Arabic Assyrian Athenian Athens Babylonic barbarians body social breakdown Buddhism century B.C. challenge chapter Christendom Church city-state civiliza communities conquest creative culture disintegration dominant minority economic Egypt Egyptiac Society England English environment Eurasian Eurasian Nomads example external fact force frontier genesis Greek growth Hellas Hellenic Civilization Hellenic history Hellenic Society Hellenic World higher religions Hindu Hittite human impact Industrialism institutions internal proletariat Islam Italian Italy Jewish Jews Kingdom living Mahāyāna military mimesis Minoan Minoan Civilization modern Western movement Muslim nature Nomads original Orthodox Christendom Orthodox Christian Orthodox Christian Society Osmanlis Ottoman Ottoman Empire parochial Phanariots philosophy physical political present primitive societies problem religious response revolution Roman Empire Rome Russian Scandinavian Sinic souls Spartan spiritual stage Steppe stimulating success Sumeric Syriac Syriac Society tariat technique tion to-day turn universal victory Völkerwanderung Western Christendom Western Society Western World Zoroastrianism