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might well be called ' A History of Our Own Times.' This fact 

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THE SPIRIT OF POWER. 



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 Roman Empire.— H. The Power of Attraction.— HI. The 

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 Power of Suffering : the Origins of Persecutions in the First 

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An attempt to represent from the point of view of the ' New 

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 diversity in unity embodied in the canon of Holy Scripture; the 

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