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... ancient civilization , it concerns the vast majority of human beings . It has always been possible for a sage to re ... ancients but our possibilities of enjoying it are immeasurably greater . The same argument might be repeated with ...
... ancient civilization , it concerns the vast majority of human beings . It has always been possible for a sage to re ... ancients but our possibilities of enjoying it are immeasurably greater . The same argument might be repeated with ...
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... ancient science , much of the latter remained practically un- known . This is so true that in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries , when the Latin world was finally awakened , Byzantine scholars preparing a sci- entific revival ...
... ancient science , much of the latter remained practically un- known . This is so true that in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries , when the Latin world was finally awakened , Byzantine scholars preparing a sci- entific revival ...
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... ancient Greece and western Christendom ended by being so precarious that it might have conceivably been broken altogether , but for the intervention of another oriental people , the Arabs . Please note that this was the third great wave ...
... ancient Greece and western Christendom ended by being so precarious that it might have conceivably been broken altogether , but for the intervention of another oriental people , the Arabs . Please note that this was the third great wave ...
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