Civilization, an Historical Review of Its Elements, כרך 1S. C. Griggs, 1890 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
agricultural Ahriman ancestor ancestor worship ancient animals army arose Aryan Asia Asiatic Assyria authority Babylonia barbarian barbarism became become belief Brahmanic Buddhistic centuries chief China Christian church cities civilization clan conception Confucius conquered conquest creed deity despotism divine doctrine early effort Egypt elements emperor empire Europe existence extended faith fetichism feudal gained Genghiz Khan gods Greece Greek grew growth Hindu hostile human idea India influence intellectual Italy king later lords mankind ment mental military mind modern monarch monotheism moral Mound Builders nations nature nomads numbers organization original pantheism patriarchal Persian philosophy Phoenicia political polytheism population priesthood priestly priests primitive principle probably produced progress punishment race regions religion religious remained replaced result Roman Roman empire Rome rule ruler savage Semitic shamanism society soul southern United spirit supremacy supreme Syria thought tion tribes vigorous village warlike worship
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 338 - And the LORD was with Judah ; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain ; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
עמוד 305 - I give you the whole of the chapter in which he mentions that as an element of his system. " (It is the way of Tao) not to act from any personal motive ; to conduct affairs without feeling the trouble of them ; to taste without being aware of the flavour ; to account the great as small and the small as great ; to recompense injury with kindness.
עמוד 478 - ... weight: or else by walking, barefoot and blindfold, over nine red-hot ploughshares, laid lengthwise at unequal distances: and if the party escaped being hurt, he was adjudged innocent; but if it happened otherwise, as without collusion it usually did, he was then condemned as guilty.
עמוד 179 - Maurer, who has written on the law of the Mark, or Township, which is still found in the more backward parts of Germany. The Mark, or Township, was an "organised, self-acting group of Teutonic families, exercising a common proprietorship over a definite tract of land, its Mark, cultivating its domain on a common system, and sustaining itself by the produce.
עמוד 304 - But it is more than the way. It is the way and the way-goer. It is an eternal road; along it all beings and things walk, but no being made it, for it is Being itself: it is everything and nothing, and the cause and effect of all. All originate from Tao, conform to Tao, and to Tao they at last return.
עמוד 301 - When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path. What you do not like, when done to yourself, do not do to others.
עמוד 304 - ... it is, as if it were the Honoured Ancestor of all things! We should blunt our sharp points, and unravel the complications of things; we should attemper our brightness, and bring ourselves into agreement with the obscurity of others. How pure and still the Tao is, as if it would ever so continue! I do not know whose son it is. It might appear to have been before God.
עמוד 481 - In one place, the penitent is told to mutilate himself and to walk on in a particular direction till he drops dead. In another he is to throw himself three times into the fire, or to go into battle and expose himself as a target to the enemy. For one great crime he is to extend himself on a red-hot iron bed, or to enter a hollow iron image, and, having lighted a fire on both sides, to burn himself to death. For the comparatively venial offence of drinking forbidden liquor a Brahman is to have boiling...
עמוד xi - View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages," "The Constitutional History of England," and the " Introduction to the Literature of Europe.
עמוד 37 - Zealand to stand on a broken arch of London Bridge and sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.