Tag Archives: Oscar Handlin

balls and chains

How the ideas and attitudes of a handful of intellectuals and thinkers becomes, quite suddenly, a powerful social force, remains a mystery and is not well understood. The monumental social consequences in culture and belief are astonsihing in hindsight… …The … Continue reading

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contrary to nature: human plunder

” … in good health as required by ordinance, not subject to any legal charge, neither a wanderer or a fugitive, free from the sacred disease ( leprosy).” The seller guaranteed all this under oath to the gods Hermes and … Continue reading

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