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... that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only , but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live " ( Deut . 8 : 3 ) . Would it were so ! Moses does not denigrate the material world .
... that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only , but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live " ( Deut . 8 : 3 ) . Would it were so ! Moses does not denigrate the material world .
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There was no suggestion that man could live without bread , only that bread is not enough . The people could not live without faith , but they were not yet ready to live on it . Yet there was no punishment , only an injunction to ...
There was no suggestion that man could live without bread , only that bread is not enough . The people could not live without faith , but they were not yet ready to live on it . Yet there was no punishment , only an injunction to ...
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It is not just man's capacity to act according to his ideals but the ability of these ideals to live among men that is being tested . The process is one of mutual adaptation between what is and what ought to be .
It is not just man's capacity to act according to his ideals but the ability of these ideals to live among men that is being tested . The process is one of mutual adaptation between what is and what ought to be .
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Contents
Introduction Why Me? Why Moses? Why Leadership? | 1 |
Passive People Passive Leader | 27 |
Pharaoh What Not to Do | 62 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Nursing Father: Moses as a Political Leader |
| Author | Aaron B. Wildavsky |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Alabama Press, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 30 Jul 2010 |
| ISBN | 0817301682, 9780817301682 |
| Length | 262 pages |
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