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... theory of hubris . It has been given as an explanation of the decadence of nations and institutions . Rome declined , Gibbon once wrote , out of its own " immoderate greatness . " And R. H. Tawney said of Christianity , " The Church of ...
... theory of hubris . It has been given as an explanation of the decadence of nations and institutions . Rome declined , Gibbon once wrote , out of its own " immoderate greatness . " And R. H. Tawney said of Christianity , " The Church of ...
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... theory . The fear of the masses affected every faction in the age , moving from the Right to the Center and Left ... theory's mass is another theory's aspiring class which then fails and itself becomes yet a new kind of mass . Yet these ...
... theory . The fear of the masses affected every faction in the age , moving from the Right to the Center and Left ... theory's mass is another theory's aspiring class which then fails and itself becomes yet a new kind of mass . Yet these ...
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... theory , the masses are composed of every- one who is not an aristocrat . Such a definition is revealing of the author's feelings but weak as sociology . It is part of that conservative opposition to the modern world per se , that ...
... theory , the masses are composed of every- one who is not an aristocrat . Such a definition is revealing of the author's feelings but weak as sociology . It is part of that conservative opposition to the modern world per se , that ...
Contents
THE ACCIDENTAL REVOLUTION | 13 |
IMAGES OF DISORDER | 43 |
THE COLD DECADENCE | 77 |
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