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11 07, 2016

Identity and Difference: can we become part of another society without losing ourselves?

By |2016-09-13T22:53:26-04:00July 11th, 2016|2016, Africa, Asia, education, Europe, Everything Else, History, July, Language, Philosophy, psychology, Quotes|0 Comments

Identity and Difference: can we become part of another society without losing ourselves? A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which [...]

29 06, 2016

Egyptian knowledge, health, and piety

By |2016-11-02T11:52:10-04:00June 29th, 2016|2016, Africa, Everything Else, health, June, Literature, Medicine, Quotes, science|0 Comments

Egyptian knowledge, health, and piety: Herodotus, the Greek "Father of History," remarks on Egyptian learning and character. The Egyptians who live in the cultivated parts of the country, by their practice of keeping records of the past, have made themselves the most learned any nation of which I have had experience. I will describe some of [...]

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