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... whole , that these social changes are to be called progress . There is decay and death , no doubt , in the social order . Peoples and civilizations perish because they are unfit for the struggle of existence . But the whole history of ...
... whole , that these social changes are to be called progress . There is decay and death , no doubt , in the social order . Peoples and civilizations perish because they are unfit for the struggle of existence . But the whole history of ...
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... whole range of human affairs . Nature has been variously interpreted both by individuals and by peoples . And all these different readings ultimately flow into that thing which we call science . But they are written down one above the ...
... whole range of human affairs . Nature has been variously interpreted both by individuals and by peoples . And all these different readings ultimately flow into that thing which we call science . But they are written down one above the ...
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... whole psychical content of its inherited life . In some groups there are found individuals impatient of the past and with sufficient strength to resist , or even to lead , the entire body of people . Among some peoples these supermen ...
... whole psychical content of its inherited life . In some groups there are found individuals impatient of the past and with sufficient strength to resist , or even to lead , the entire body of people . Among some peoples these supermen ...
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... whole land lay before him . As men passed from the nomad state as hunters or shepherds , built for themselves houses , cultivated the soil , took up defi- nite occupations , and saturated the whole of life with local color , the action ...
... whole land lay before him . As men passed from the nomad state as hunters or shepherds , built for themselves houses , cultivated the soil , took up defi- nite occupations , and saturated the whole of life with local color , the action ...
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... whole physiology of the social life . The results of social development are realized in institutions . In the earlier forms of history they are often only rudimentary . Even the three pri- mary institutions , the family , the church ...
... whole physiology of the social life . The results of social development are realized in institutions . In the earlier forms of history they are often only rudimentary . Even the three pri- mary institutions , the family , the church ...
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Page 178 - For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains : and the wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were hungry I would not tell thee : for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Page 150 - What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear ? And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites : for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God ; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
Page 178 - If I were hungry I would not tell thee : for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats ? Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most high.
Page 98 - An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.
Page 104 - When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Page 161 - Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul ? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him ? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?
Page 72 - And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Page 181 - And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
Page 195 - Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
Page 152 - And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the Lord's and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.