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"This old man," I said at length, "is the type and the genius of deep crime. He refuses to be alone. He is the man of the crowd. It will be in vain to follow; for I shall learn no more of him, nor of his deeds. The worst heart of the world is a grosser book than the 'Hortulus Animæ,' and perhaps it is but one of the great mercies of God that 'er lasst sich nicht lesen.' "

Life seems a passage between
two doors to the darkness.

Both are the same and truly
eternal, and perhaps it may
be said that we meet in
darkness.

The nature of time
is illuminated by this
meeting of eternal ends.

هل القانون ضروري -
القانون والقوة -
القانون والاخلاق -
القانون الطبيعي والحقوق الطبيعية -
الوضعية القانونية أو القانون الوضعي -
القانون والعدل -
الحرية والقانون -
القانون والسيادة والدولة -
القانون واﻟﻤﺠتمع -
القانون والعرف -
القضاء -
التفكير التصوري في القانون -
بعض المفاهيم القانونية الرئيسية -
الخاتمة: بهض قضايا ا لمستقبل -

Globalism consists of powerful narratives that sell an overarching neoliberal worldview, thereby creating collective meanings and shaping people's identities.

Globalization is about the triumph of markets over governments. Both proponents and opponents of globalization agree that the driving force today is markets, which are suborning the role of government.

The truth is independent of human desires and tastes, and that at least part of it lies within the reach of human understanding, is a simple and widespread conviction. But it is not an easy conviction to explain and justify in any great depth. The task of a philosopher was to provide just such an explanation and defence.

Book IV: The Intellectual Adventure 1648–1715

Book III: The Periphery 1648–1715

Every victory breeds new enemies or inflames old ones.

Book II: England 1649 - 1714

Book I: The French Zenith (1643 - 1715)

In the hollows of the trees,
In the shadows of the leaves,
In the spaces between the waves,
In the whispers of the winds,
In the bottom of the well,
In the darkness of the eaves,
Slowly,
Places that had been silent for who knows how long,
Stopped being silent!!!

The Islamic militants who attacked New York and Washington on 9/11 believed they were striking a blow against imperialism. To most Americans and Europeans, such a claim seemed utterly grotesque. But many people in poorer countries, even if they did not approve of these murderous acts, seemed to understand very well what the attackers said they were about.

Colonialism is something more specific and strictly political: systems of rule by one group over another, where the first claims the right to exercise exclusive sovereignty over the second and to shape its destiny.

An empire is a large, composite, multi-ethnic or multinational political unit, usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate, sometimes far distant, peripheries.

Imperialism is used to mean the actions and attitudes which create or uphold such big political units – but also less obvious and direct kinds of control or domination by one person or country over others.

A great deal of the world’s history is the history of empires. Indeed it could be said that all history is imperial – or colonial – history.

BOOK VI: Finale 1534–76
- CHAPTER XXII: Sunset in Venice 1534–76
- CHAPTER XXIII: The Waning of the Renaissance 1534–76
Envoi

BOOK V: Debacle
- CHAPTER XIX: The Intellectual Revolt 1300–1534
- CHAPTER XX: The Moral Release 1300–1534
- CHAPTER XXI: The Political Collapse 1494–1534

BOOK V: Debacle
- CHAPTER XIX: The Intellectual Revolt 1300–1534
- CHAPTER XX: The Moral Release 1300–1534
- CHAPTER XXI: The Political Collapse 1494–1534

Book IV: The Roman Renaissance (1378–1521)
- The Crisis in the Church 1378–1447
- The Renaissance Captures Rome 1447–92
- The Borgias 1492–1503
- Julius II 1503–13
- Leo X 1513–21

Book III: Italian Pageant (1378 - 1534)

Book II: The Florentine Renaissance (1378 - 1534)

Book I: Prelude 1300-1377

BOOK IV: THE DARK AGES (566–1095)

BOOK III : JUDAIC CIVILIZATION (135–1300)

Book II : Islamic Civilization (569–1258)

This reconciliation of the Koran and science may seem painless, but in reality it is not. It is undignified to have to bend the traditionally accepted meaning of one’s scripture to accommodate the values of others.

Book I: The Byzantine Zenith (325 - 565)

And she managed to spin it :/ :/ the moment she said 8 month pregnant you kindda know where she was going with it :/ and she did we have Jace and Jonathan -_- still don't like it but :/

The Adventure of the Priory School