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... the Organic Universe and Organic Life. 3: The origins of modern humans going back 25 million years. 4: Human Psycho-biology. 5: The beginnings of civilization. 6: The effect of civilization upon humans. 7: Death, the existence of evil and its effect on humans. Offered as a free E-book at: http://thepathofsplitness.com/ ...

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...ho-biologic Totality. Chapter 5: Modern Humans: Pgs 267-299 The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements Chapter 6: Civilization Pgs 300-704 A: The Beginnings of Civilization Pgs 705-1474 B: The Effect of Civilization on Humans Pgs 1475-1868 Chapter 7: Entities and the Alternative ...

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...rs to Settlements Chapter 6: Civilization Pgs 300-703 A: The Beginnings of Civil... ...: The Beginnings of Civilization Pgs 704-1469 B: The Effect of Civilization on Humans Pgs 1470-1868 Chapter 7: ... ... The Geometric Structure of Self-Awareness Pg 163 The Geometric Structure of Civilization Pg 163 Balanced and Imbalanced Awareness Ph 164 The Re... ...ansition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements. Pg 267 Modern Humans before Civilization Pg 269 The Dynamics of the Transition Pg 279 The Creat... ...8 Ownership Pg 290 Law Pg 291 War Pg 296 Conclusion Chapter Six ‘A’: Civilization The Beginnings of Civilization Pg 300 The Beginnings ... ...r than they were. They killed off the original inhabitants in their area; the Etruscans: because they were more affluent, they had better pottery, b... ...ural offshoot of Greece. The original Romans came from Greece. The original Etruscans living in Italy were crushed and sublimated into a sterile Gr...

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...wledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue By Michael S. Hart... ...owledge upset the balance of power and spawned revolutionary changes in civilization after civilization.‖ —Brad Bradford Preface Way back in ... ...oved on to evolutions and revolutions that upset the power balance in one civilization after another. • Pioneer leaders of today‘s ongoing informati... ... Fearsome Mongol warriors playing a positive role in the rise of Western Civilization.  Interchangeable parts more than four centuries before Eli ... ... and today‘s boundary between Pakistan and India. A thriving agrarian civilization with a common language had evolved around the lake‘s sandy sh... ...-letter Hawaiian system. The Golden Alphabet Age Passed on to the Etruscans and Romans, the enormously enriched Greek alphabet fueled Rome‘s...

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...wledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue by Michael S. ... ...owledge upset the balance of power and spawned revolutionary changes in civilization after civilization. —brad bradford Preface Way back in t... ...oved on to evolutions and revolutions that upset the power balance in one civilization after another. • Pioneer leaders of today‘s ongoing informati... ... Fearsome Mongol warriors playing a positive role in the rise of Western Civilization.  Interchangeable parts more than four centuries before Eli ... ...nel and today‘s boundary between Pakistan and India. A thriving agrarian civilization with a common language had evolved around the lake‘s sandy sh... ...long survive his early death. The Golden Alphabet Age Passed on to the Etruscans and Romans, the enormously enriched Greek alphabet fueled Rome‘s...

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... of their enclave they would have sewn not only rice but the continuation of civilization. Their footprints in mud were ephemeral, but they had their ... ... thwart his primitive hungers for sex and socialization (synonymous words of civilization's shaping, but base nonetheless), and sensing the true vacuo... ...ind and gentle, strong and smart because they weren't arrogant. They had no civilization that told them to flush dung down the toilet, and no amicabl... ... verdict in the Gabriele-made indictment of the past 7000 to 10,000 years of civilization. Drying herself and the baby in front of the window she put ... ...hort-term memories blowing erratically inside of them. It was a wonder that civilization existed at all. Humans were great wonders unto themselves t... ...ca in Vatican City, and the catacombs. Their final whole day was filled with Etruscan art, a return to the Coliseum, another meandering around the anc... ...oney and things to flash at others how different would you be from any naked Etruscan savage apart from not being dead and living in America?" " I don...

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... as I sat by him. I could not recall such an assembly in years: Scythian, Etruscan, VOICES FROM THE PAST 20 Turkish, Negro. Bowls of incense ... ...An amethyst was set in the center with characters engraved around it. “An Etruscan scarab should make a pretty keepsake,” he said. “Then I think you... ...d in my room throughout the day. I have enjoyed the detail from my fresco—Etruscan girl strewing flowers, hair streaming over her shoulders, face fi... ... will I smell the cabin’s wick and the nets? Oh, drown me, Egyptian lion, Etruscan charioteer, lunge and shield: yours is the tyranny. Surely femin... ...ter. The wick struggles into flame, as if reluctant to leave the past. My Etruscan wall girl comes alive. “Ah-hah-who.” I take off my chain and pea... ...ite House. I listen. I must ask myself some questions this evening: must civilization be influ- enced by greedy politicians, connivers, self-promote...

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... vile for primitive actions of primate forefathers had led to the present. Civilization and all that was refined was constructed on the backs of those... ...tful pornographic artist from a third world country was not such a gift to civilization. He would never equal the great artists of the world and of pr... ...nt seemed particularly vacuous and the blessing a curse. He read a book on Etruscan art for a few hours before his already aching buttocks began to hu...

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...expelled from Rome, when they were endeavoring to return by the aid of the Etruscans. Lars Porsena, one of the great Etruscan chieftains, had taken up... ...ded by a fort, called the Janiculum. But the vanguards of the overwhelming Etruscan army soon 21 Yo n g e took the fort, and then, in the gallant wor... ...g his tributary nations he counted the Chaldean, with his learning and old civilization, the wise and steadfast Jew, the skilful Phoenician, the learn... ...inion over the cen- tral part of Italy. They were well used to Italian and Etruscan ways of mak- ing war, but after nearly 400 years of this kind of f... ...ched over the shades of the dead. Probably these older Romans held the old Etruscan belief, which took these ‘gods beneath’ to be winged beings, who b... ...on condition of keeping the natives in check. A growing taste for arts and civilization was leading to Romans of inferior classes settling themselves ... ... called the Gauls, for their cowardice, they were in awe of the supe- rior civilization and the knowledge of arts. The country people had free access ... ...ith the vigor and honor of the desert tribes, yet capable of cul- ture and civilization, excelling all other nations of their time in science and art,... ... exacted by the honorable character of the enemy, and by the fact that the civilization and learning of the Christian kingdoms were far more derived f...

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...owed the advice of both parties. I set aside, for the Mu- 95 A Tramp Abroad seum, those articles which were the most frail and precious. Among these ... ...the side is not a bug, it is a hole. I bought this tear-jug of a dealer in antiquities for four hundred and fifty dollars. It is very rare. The man sa... ... in evening dress. We watered the caravan at the cold stream which rushes down a trough near the end of the village, and soon after- ward left the hau...

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...rance-room, which, by the solidity of its construction, might have been an Etruscan tomb, being paved and walled with heavy blocks of stone, and vault... ...s finger on these forgot- ten edifices and tell us all about their origin. Etruscan princes may have dwelt in them. A thousand years, at all events, w... ... refreshment to the scene of verdure and fertility amid which this ancient civilization stands; insomuch that Kenyon loitered, when they came to the g... ...an we can find in the Grecian masterpieces. They belong to our Chris- tian civilization; and, being earnest works, they always ex- press something whi... ...ularly transmitted down- ward, and perhaps a little modified by the better civilization of Christianity; so that Caesar may have trod narrower and fil... ...entury,—through much shadow, and a little sunshine, —through barbarism and civilization, alter- nating with one another like actors that have prearran... ... It is so heathenish, as it were,—so unlike all the snugness of our modern civilization! Look, too, at the pavement, directly beneath the open space! ... ...was a bracelet, evidently of great cost, being com- posed of seven ancient Etruscan gems, dug out of seven sep- ulchres, and each one of them the sign... ...ng the imaginary adventures and catastrophe of its former wearer. Thus the Etruscan brace- let became the connecting bond of a series of seven won- dr...

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...s,—at this bright sky, and those blue distant mountains, and at the ruins, Etruscan, Roman, Christian, venerable with a threefold antiquity, and at th... ...ge of chivalry and romance, the feudal system, and the infancy of a better civilization than that of Rome. Or, if we remember these mediaeval times, t... ...rance-room, which, by the solidity of its construction, might have been an Etruscan 166 The Marble Fawn tomb, being paved and walled with heavy block... ...s finger on these forgot- ten edifices and tell us all about their origin. Etruscan princes may have dwelt in them. A thousand years, at all events, w... ... refreshment to the scene of verdure and fertility amid which this ancient civilization stands; insomuch that Kenyon loitered, when they came to the g... ...an we can find in the Grecian masterpieces. They belong to our Chris- tian civilization; and, being earnest works, they always ex- press something whi... ...ularly transmitted down- ward, and perhaps a little modified by the better civilization of Christianity; so that Caesar may have trod narrower and fil... ...was a bracelet, evidently of great cost, being com- posed of seven ancient Etruscan gems, dug out of seven sep- ulchres, and each one of them the sign... ...ng the imaginary adventures and catastrophe of its former wearer. Thus the Etruscan brace- let became the connecting bond of a series of seven won- dr...

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...illiant exceptional look—the air of a happy temperament fertilized by a high civilization—which would have made almost any observer envy him at a vent... ...u that I prefer them immensely. Miss Stackpole knows I detest boarding house civilization, and she detests me for detesting it, because she thinks it ... ... excuse. She didn’t for a moment pretend that the desire to examine decaying civilizations had anything to do with her present enterprise; her journey... ...nd regret, that she recalled to 468 Portrait of a Lady herself one of those Etruscan figures couched upon the receptacle of their ashes. There was not...

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...f finding another mother, an- other soul for his soul. But, separated from civilization by an iron wall, it was well-nigh impossible to meet with a be... ...Hated Son to him the abysses of the moral world and the terrible shocks of civilization. He felt that his soul, if torn by the throng of men, would pe... ...course were traced with exquisite delicacy, like the red, pure outlines of Etruscan figures. Their slightest words brought a flood of ideas, because e...

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...s,—at this bright sky, and those blue distant mountains, and at the ruins, Etruscan, Roman, Christian, venerable with a threefold antiquity, and at th... ...ge of chivalry and romance, the feudal system, and the infancy of a better civilization than that of Rome. Or, if we remember these mediaeval times, t...

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...up, he inclined to despise that black spot in the creation, with which our civilization should never have had anything to do. So he pronounced his min... ...rs ev- ery instrument in the attempt. But it’s convenient, like our modern civilization—a taming and a diminishing of indi- viduals for an insipid har... ...e superior senses. Say that they were precious examples of an accomplished civilization; and perhaps they did offer a visible ideal of grace for the r... ... it, for they stood for Night and Day,—both hung with gold; the bru- nette Etruscan, and the blonde Asiatic; and every Frenchman present was epigramiz... ...ic. In fine, his contrast of the pretence of their noble coun- try to head civilization, and its encouragement of a custom so barbarous, offended M. d... ...es, to half the popula- tion. A safe percentage on savings is the basis of civilization.’ 225 George Meredith But he had bruised his eloquence, for t...

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...ish,’ dear child,” he resumed, “is frequently all that remains of vanished civilizations. An Etruscan jar, and a necklace, which sometimes fetch forty... ... he resumed, “is frequently all that remains of vanished civilizations. An Etruscan jar, and a necklace, which sometimes fetch forty and fifty thousan... ... the perfection of art at the time of the siege of T roy, proving that the Etruscans were T rojan refugees in Italy.” This was the President’s cumbrou... ...n these treasures. Still, they were surprised by the beauty of some of the Etruscan trinkets and the solid value of the snuff-boxes, and out of polite... ...upon a heartfelt sorrow. The thought of it is enough to make one turn from civilization and choose rather the customs of the savage. At nine o’clock t... ... nature imitative; imitative indeed to such an extent that the diseases of civilization break out among them in epidemics. The bric-a-brac mania had a...

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...que effects. First of all, the stranger compared the three galleries which civilization, cults, divinities, masterpieces, dominions, carous- als, sani... ...h gleeful reverence before the god Priapus, wrought in the fine clay of an Etruscan vase? The Latin queen caressed her chimera. The whims of Imperial ... ...limitable abyss of the past? When the fossil bones of animals belonging to civilizations before the Flood are turned up in bed after bed and layer upo... ...to-morrow, but to-night at least my gorge rises at the anaemic life of our civilization and its railroad evenness. I am seized with a passion for the ... ...e cliffs, seemed ready to shake the laws which confine the ebb and flow of civilization; un- consciously fulfilling the will of God, who has suffered ... ...irty million leagues from the sun?” “Let us once more take a broad view of civilization,” said the man of learning who, for the benefit of the inatten...

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.... There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,—all whose bones can... ... to his mistress, something noble and cleanly in the former’s distance. In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yie... ...ian muse, we should understand why he will not exchange his savageness for civilization. Nations are not whimsical. Steel and blankets are strong temp... ..., only a few arrow heads are turned up by the plough. In the Pelasgic, the Etruscan, or the British story, there is nothing so shadowy and unreal. It ... ... days of the ancient festivals, games, and pro cessions of the Greeks and Etruscans, with a little incredu lity, or at least with little sympathy; b... ... no real refine ment in the poetry of the rudest era. It reminds him that civilization does but dress men. It makes shoes, but it does not toughen th...

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...considering that the word religion is originally Roman, [probably from the Etruscan,] it seems probable that it presented the idea of religion under s... ...of forward-looking views, contemplat- ing, for instance, the furthering of civilization, or contem- plating some interests in a world beyond the prese... ...he victim. All things concur to show, that precisely as you as- cend above civilization, which continually increased the limi- tations upon the gods o... ...ion of time, by experience, by expanding occasions, and by the progress of civilization. Is Newmanism likely to prosper? Let me tell a little anecdote... ... oversight would have been fatal to Islamism, had Islamism produced a high civilization. 90 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V olume One ON ON O... ...tion connected with his vast revolutionary projects for extending a higher civilization over the globe, such a king, conversing with such a language, ...

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...e teeth and laughing gas and the tilt- ing chair at a place which knew the Etruscan League, and the Pax Romana, and Alaric himself, and the Countess M... ... belong to a city, however mean. He was here, how- ever, as an emissary of civilization and as a student of character, and, after a sigh, he entered S...

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...- culty lay! So wags the world. Tempora mutantur—excuse me for quoting the Etruscan. What would we do without the Atalantic telegraph? (Pundit says At... ...the propriety of the term “improvement,” as applied to the progress of our civilization. There were periods in each of the five or six centu- ries imm...

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...armed the brown surface of the city-wall, and lighted the hol- lows of the Etruscan hills. Longueville settled himself on the empty bench, and, arrang... ...es of conquest by which a pretty American girl attests her allegiance to a civilization in which young women occupy the highest place—he had felt sure...

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...edith the recognition of our individual countenances: a perilous thing for civilization. And these wise men are strong in their opinion that we should... ...ings of reverence? A very little, my love, and everything gained for us by civilization crumbles; we fall back to the first mortar-bowl we were bruise... ...of double blossom, he has improved away the fruit. Call this the Vestal of civilization, then; he has at least done something to vindicate the beauty ... ...t a county dinner-table by an allusion to Vernon “at work at home upon his Etruscans or his Dorians”; and he paused a moment to let the allusion sink,... ...They are to us what we hold of best or worst within. By their state is our civilization judged: and if it is hugely animal still, that is because prim... ... he has taken them. In return for the silken armour bestowed on her by our civilization, it is exacted that she be soft and civil nigh up to perishing...