The Project Gutenberg eBook of Novum Organum, by Lord Bacon

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the power and aid of instruments, as they have not hesitated to carry on the labors of their understanding with the unaided efforts of their mind, they would have been able to mov

Islamic civilization?

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population, and became instruments of private aristocratic power.  The groundwork for the feudal system was carried out in the period of the Gothic and Frankish kingdoms.  However
Islamic civilization; analysis of its content, rise and fall, and its influence on Europe and on the ancient Middle Easters civilizations it conquered

David Hume: Of the Original Contract

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all those who are the instruments of his usurpation may wish his fall; buttheir ignorance of each other's intention keeps them in awe, and is the solecause of his security. By suc

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