Freedom in the Western World: From the Dark Ages to the Rise of DemocracyHarper & Row, 1963 - 428 Seiten Herbert J. Muller examines the meaning of freedom in the great civilizations of the past including the Sumerian, Egyptian, Minoan, Assyrian, Persian, Phoenician, Greek, Roman and early Christian. Ranging from the attempts of the cave man to free himself from the tyranny of nature through magic and ritual, to the religious despotism of Byzantium, the author surveys freedom's gains and triumps, its losses and failures. In doing so, he provides the reader with new insight into the meaning and destiny of freedom in Western Civilization. |
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... ENGLAND 1. The Muddling Mother of Parliaments It is not England that made her Parliament , the saying goes , but Parlia- ment that made England . Englishmen are wont to add that the key to this process was not intellect but character ...
... ENGLAND 1. The Muddling Mother of Parliaments It is not England that made her Parliament , the saying goes , but Parlia- ment that made England . Englishmen are wont to add that the key to this process was not intellect but character ...
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... England.2 If only because it stood on no firm doctrinal ground , and stood for no fervent religious principle , it soon began to exhibit the English genius for compromise , or sensible muddle . Immediately it spared England the ...
... England.2 If only because it stood on no firm doctrinal ground , and stood for no fervent religious principle , it soon began to exhibit the English genius for compromise , or sensible muddle . Immediately it spared England the ...
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... England emerged as the champion of the liberties of Europe . Immediately the patriotism strengthened the monarchs who finally united to defeat Napoleon , and thereupon inaugurated the reactionary era presided over by Metternich ; but it ...
... England emerged as the champion of the liberties of Europe . Immediately the patriotism strengthened the monarchs who finally united to defeat Napoleon , and thereupon inaugurated the reactionary era presided over by Metternich ; but it ...
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The Rise and Fall of Islam | 1 |
THE ORIGINS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION | 25 |
The Medieval Sources of Freedom | 47 |
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