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Civilization

Name: Civilization
ISBN: 0143122061

: The West and the Rest

From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower Western civilization’s rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five centuries. How did the W

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Frederick the Great (1)

“Christianity…is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals, and then spread to our Europe, where some fanatics espoused it, where some intriguers pretended to be convinced by it and where some imbeciles…”

— Frederick the Great, amazon.com

Tagged: Christianity, Anti-Christian, Orientals, Europe, Fanatics