Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political SocietyC. K. Paul & Company, 1881 - 224 Seiten |
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... Roman history , used to preach that this identity was the great cure for the misguided modern world . But he spoke to ears filled with other sounds and minds filled with other thoughts , and they hardly knew his meaning , much less ...
... Roman history , used to preach that this identity was the great cure for the misguided modern world . But he spoke to ears filled with other sounds and minds filled with other thoughts , and they hardly knew his meaning , much less ...
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... Roman armies . The body - guard of Augustus had been so composed ; the prætorians were generally selected from the ... Romans admitting barbarians to rank and office ; barbarians catching something of the manners and culture of their ...
... Roman armies . The body - guard of Augustus had been so composed ; the prætorians were generally selected from the ... Romans admitting barbarians to rank and office ; barbarians catching something of the manners and culture of their ...
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... Roman , and the Roman allied himself to the barbarian . Modern science explains the wasting away of savage men ; it says that we THE USE OF CONFLICT . 47.
... Roman , and the Roman allied himself to the barbarian . Modern science explains the wasting away of savage men ; it says that we THE USE OF CONFLICT . 47.
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... Roman legionaries or Homeric Greeks were about as superior to the men of the shell mounds and the flint implements as we are superior to them . There has been a constant acquisition of military strength by man since we know anything of ...
... Roman legionaries or Homeric Greeks were about as superior to the men of the shell mounds and the flint implements as we are superior to them . There has been a constant acquisition of military strength by man since we know anything of ...
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... Roman generation , so far as we know , differs a little - and in the best times often but a very little - from its prede- cessors . And therefore the history is so continuous as it goes , though its two ends are so unlike . The history ...
... Roman generation , so far as we know , differs a little - and in the best times often but a very little - from its prede- cessors . And therefore the history is so continuous as it goes , though its two ends are so unlike . The history ...
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