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... word in its narrower and older sense of the elaboration of citizenship in a political and social organization , and exclude mechanical and scientific progress from it , has , on the whole , been rather on the side of fragmentation . It ...
... word in its narrower and older sense of the elaboration of citizenship in a political and social organization , and exclude mechanical and scientific progress from it , has , on the whole , been rather on the side of fragmentation . It ...
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... word were tend- ing to make human societies , as they became more elaborately organized , more heterogeneous and mutually unsympathetic , there were also coming into play throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , for the ...
... word were tend- ing to make human societies , as they became more elaborately organized , more heterogeneous and mutually unsympathetic , there were also coming into play throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , for the ...
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... word . Having no fixed place of abode , it had no civil — as distinct from military - population . The whole peo- ple- old men , women , and children included - took part in the toils and perils of war . There were no places of security ...
... word . Having no fixed place of abode , it had no civil — as distinct from military - population . The whole peo- ple- old men , women , and children included - took part in the toils and perils of war . There were no places of security ...
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... words : munitions and transport . Before the age of machines , it was impossible to arm and clothe immense multitudes of men : before the days of McAdam and Stephenson , it was impossible to move such mul- titudes , and still more to ...
... words : munitions and transport . Before the age of machines , it was impossible to arm and clothe immense multitudes of men : before the days of McAdam and Stephenson , it was impossible to move such mul- titudes , and still more to ...
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... words to blows , and a battle was fought , in which both parties suffered great loss , but at the end the Lacedæmonians gained the victory . Whether true or not , this story is illuminating . It shows that the Prussian theory of war ...
... words to blows , and a battle was fought , in which both parties suffered great loss , but at the end the Lacedæmonians gained the victory . Whether true or not , this story is illuminating . It shows that the Prussian theory of war ...
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