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• 96:0 Yahweh—The God of the Hebrews
  ...[[power]] and very soon [[influenced]] the highest [[deity]] [[concepts]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia], [https://en.wikipe ...fostered as to [[prepare]] the way for the [[earth]] [[bestowal]] of a Son of that one God. [[Michael]] could hardly come to [[Urantia]] until there exis
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• 95:4 Teachings of Amenemope
  ...enemope]. This [[seer]] exalted [[conscience]] to its highest [[pinnacle]] of arbitrament between right and wrong, taught punishment for [[sin]], and [[p ...in [[governmental]] positions of [[trust]], and these [[noble]] sentiments of long ago would do [[honor]] to any [[modern]] [[statesman]].
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• Thoreau
  ....[2] He was also deeply interested in the [[idea]] of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time im ...f [[civil disobedience]] influenced the [[political]] thoughts and actions of such later figures as [[Leo Tolstoy]], [[Mahatma Gandhi]], and [[Martin Lut
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• Dictionary of Hinduism
  ...com.catalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t272 '''''A Dictionary of Hinduism'''''] ...nd religious [[texts]], this is the most comprehensive Hinduism dictionary of its kind. It contains 2,800 entries on everything from Tantra to temples, f
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• Macrocosm and Microcosm
  ...y. In short, it is the recognition that the same traits appear in entities of many different sizes, from one man to the entire human population. Macrocosm/microcosm is a [[Greek language|Greek]] compound of μακρο- "Macro-" and μι&#x
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• Prose
  ...straightforward, being in prose, contraction of proversus, past participle of provertere to turn forward, from pro- forward + vertere to turn ...[variety]] of rhythm and its closer [[correspondence]] to the [[patterns]] of everyday [[speech]]
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• Change
  ...om Anglo-French ''changer'', from Latin ''cambiare'' to exchange, probably of Celtic origin; akin to Old Irish ''camm'' crooked :c : to exchange for an equivalent sum of [[money]] (as in smaller denominations or in a foreign currency) <change a
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• Colin Wilson
  ...ogy) phenomenological] existentialism", and maintained his life work "that of a philosopher, and (his) [[purpose]] to create a new and optimistic existen ...rg/wiki/T._E._Lawrence T. E. Lawrence] – and discusses Wilson's perception of social [[alienation]] in their work. The book became a best-seller and help
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• Contemporary Philosophy
  ..., and logical problems, '''20th-century philosophy''' was set for a series of attempts variously to reform, preserve, alter, abolish, previously conceive ...tive linguistics]], rich [[literature|literary]] output, and the emergence of the [[Film|motion picture]] as an art form greatly enriched philosophical s
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• Secondary Corpus
  ...h the [[language]]s, [[literature]], [[history]], [[art]], and all aspects of the ancient [[Mediterranean]] world. The study of the Universe integrating [[science]], [[philosophy]], and [[religion]].
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• Dictionary of Environment and Conservation
  ...om.catalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t244 ''''''A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation''''''] ...Gaia hypothesis]], and Ozone depletion, and 10 appendices covering a range of related subjects including international environmental treaties, the Beaufo
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• Systems Theory
  ...ted in other fields, such as in the structural functionalist [[sociology]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talcott_Parsons Talcott Parsons] and Niklas ==History==
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• Past
  ...00-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from past participle of passen to pass ...sually formed by internal vowel [[change]] (as in sang) or by the addition of a suffix (as in laughed)
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• Fatalism
  ...the [[doctrine]] that all things are determined by fate; a particular form of this [[doctrine]]. ...trine that all [[events]] take place in accordance with unvarying [[laws]] of [[causation]]. In strict etymological propriety, and in the best modern usa
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• Quentin Skinner
  ...From 2008 he will be Professor in the Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London. ...Cambridge, where he has been ever since. He is now also an Honorary Fellow of Caius.
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• Vegan
  ...ters of vegetarian to form "vegan," which he saw as "the beginning and end of vegetarian. Vegan is pronounced /ˈviːɡən/[18]. Some people pronounce ve ...mal]]s.” According to this [[understanding]], veganism is not itself a set of [[actions]] or [[practices]] but instead “a principle, from which certain
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• Wouter J. Hanegraaff
  ...so President of the [https://www.esswe.org/ European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism] (ESSWE). ...soterica (journal)|Esoterica]]'', and on the advisory board of ''[[Journal of Contemporary Religion]]'' and ''[[Nova Religio]]''.
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• Classics
  ...tudy in the humanities. The word "Classics" also refers to the literature of that period. ...he eastern Mediterranean—the ancient [[Persian Empire]] and the [[kingdoms of ancient India]]—are termed [[Orientalists]].
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• Oxford Reference Premium
  ...story]] titles such as the ''Encyclopedia of Mammals''. This means a total of over 1.4 million entries, including longer, in-depth, signed entries with b ...reference titles offered by the original Core Collection PLUS a whole host of additional material such as:
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• Immanuel Kant
  ...nse. ''His Critique of Practical Reason'' (1788) affirms the [[existence]] of an absolute moral law—the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_Impe ...[[experience]] and limiting the mind’s access only to the empirical realm of [[space and time]].
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