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... human race . Power and the struggle for power are of course realities involved in the machinery of communism and Soviet Russia in which Rothstein and Mirsky became fatally involved ; but power is always the concern of a tiny minority ...
... human race . Power and the struggle for power are of course realities involved in the machinery of communism and Soviet Russia in which Rothstein and Mirsky became fatally involved ; but power is always the concern of a tiny minority ...
Page 100
... human beings , not easily distinguishable from one an- other or from the tea with its delicate taste and aroma , for they were all made , fabricated , collected in accordance with society's standards of sophisticated culture and good ...
... human beings , not easily distinguishable from one an- other or from the tea with its delicate taste and aroma , for they were all made , fabricated , collected in accordance with society's standards of sophisticated culture and good ...
Page 235
... human beings — and pre - eminently of the ruling castes and classes - has produced an unending series of unnecessary historical horrors and disasters , ever since the Lord began it by trying to prevent Adam and Eve from learning the ...
... human beings — and pre - eminently of the ruling castes and classes - has produced an unending series of unnecessary historical horrors and disasters , ever since the Lord began it by trying to prevent Adam and Eve from learning the ...
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