PDF The Preservation of Jewish Religious Books in Sixteenth-Century Germany: Johannes Reuchlin's Augenspiegel (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions / Texts and S) by Daniel O'Callaghan in History

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Carroll Quigley was a legendary teacher at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. His course on the history of civilization was extraordinary in its scope and in its impact on his students.Like the course; The Evolution of Civilizations is a comprehensive and perceptive look at the factors behind the rise and fall of civilizations.Quigley defines a civilization as "a producing society with an instrument of expansion." A civilization's decline is not inevitable but occurs when its instrument of expansion is transformed into an institution—that is; when social arrangements that meet real social needs are transformed into social institutions serving their own purposes regardless of real social needs.