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The Hellenization Of The West; A Grecian Paradox, Graydon S. Staring
The Hellenization Of The West; A Grecian Paradox, Graydon S. Staring
Graydon S. Staring
A brief summary of the great movements, movers and events that through more than two millenniums preserved and spread widely to the present day the culture of a small nation all that tine of parlous stability and seldom independent.
Slaves To Contradictions: 13 Myths That Sustained Slavery, Wilson Huhn
Slaves To Contradictions: 13 Myths That Sustained Slavery, Wilson Huhn
Wilson R. Huhn
People have a fundamental need to think of themselves as “good people.” To achieve this we tell each other stories – we create myths – about ourselves and our society. These myths may be true or they may be false. The more discordant a myth is with reality, the more difficult it is to convince people to embrace it. In such cases to sustain the illusion of truth it may be necessary to develop an entire mythology – an integrated web of mutually supporting stories. This paper explores the system of myths that sustained the institution of slavery in the …