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“Slowly the increasing complexity of tools and trades subjected the unskilled or weak to the skilled or strong; every invention was a new weapon in the hands of the strong, and further strengthened them in their mastery and use of the weak.”
― Our Oriental Heritage
― Our Oriental Heritage
“As the life of a society becomes more complex, and the division of labor differentiates men into diverse occupations and trades, it becomes more and more unlikely that all these services will be equally valuable to the group;”
― Our Oriental Heritage
― Our Oriental Heritage
“the state arose as an indispensable instrument for the regulation of classes, the protection of property, the waging of war, and the organization of peace.”
― Our Oriental Heritage
― Our Oriental Heritage
“Agriculture, while generating civilization, led not only to private property but to slavery. In purely hunting communities slavery had been unknown; the hunter’s wives and children sufficed to do the menial work.”
― Our Oriental Heritage
― Our Oriental Heritage
“work was his restorative.”
― Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking
― Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking
Ravi’s 2020 Year in Books
Take a look at Ravi’s Year in Books. The good, the bad, the long, the short—it’s all here.
686 books
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61 friends
236 books
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89 friends
303 books
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88 friends
29 books
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46 friends
2 books
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2 friends
80 books
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15 friends
109 books
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12 friends
66 books
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1 friend
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Biography, Business, Classics, Comics, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, and Nonfiction
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