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... beginning of scientific standards . No ancient history is scientific in the modern sense . Herodotus made valuable contribu- tions to geography and to anthropology , and has been called " the Father of Modern Anthropology . " It was a ...
... beginning of scientific standards . No ancient history is scientific in the modern sense . Herodotus made valuable contribu- tions to geography and to anthropology , and has been called " the Father of Modern Anthropology . " It was a ...
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... beginning . Another approach is to compare the long speeches with those of Aeschylus , Euripides and Shakespeare . " Sophocles , " said Edward Fitzgerald , " never jaws philosophy in the midst of passion . All his speeches advance ...
... beginning . Another approach is to compare the long speeches with those of Aeschylus , Euripides and Shakespeare . " Sophocles , " said Edward Fitzgerald , " never jaws philosophy in the midst of passion . All his speeches advance ...
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... beginnings of the history of all the peoples we know ; no matter what nation it is whose earliest traditions we ... beginning , not freedom , but some form of dominion by a monarch or a caste . Free government was invented , in the ...
... beginnings of the history of all the peoples we know ; no matter what nation it is whose earliest traditions we ... beginning , not freedom , but some form of dominion by a monarch or a caste . Free government was invented , in the ...
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