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Word: portionless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1954-1954
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...religious goals by military short cuts." In effect, Toynbee is saying that to stay healthy, a civilization must plot its own course, quotes with approval the ghost of Achilles from the Odyssey: "I would rather be a wretched peasant on the land, abouring as a serf with a poor, portionless man for my master, than be sovereign ord of all the legions of the shades of the dead and departed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prophet of Hope & Fear | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

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