By Karl Jaspers
First released in English in 1953, this significant booklet from eminent thinker Karl Jaspers bargains with the philsophy of the heritage of mankind. extra particularly, its avowed objective is to help in heightening our understanding of the current by means of putting it in the framework of the lengthy obscurity of prehistory and the boundless realm of chances which lie in the not sure destiny.
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