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By contrast, the lesson learned in China from the experience of warring kingdoms was that stability could be achieved only in a single, monolithic empire, with a culture (Confucianism) centred on filial piety (xiao). There was no religious authority superior to the emperor.21 There was no law other than laws the emperor made.
The Square and the Tower
Niall Ferguson
Perhaps trickster’s accidents reveal not hidden realms of greater order but a world of shifting fragments, noise, and imperfection. The fruit fly born with legs where its antennae should be has not received a useful message. Accident is the revelation of accident.
Trickster Makes This World
Lewis Hyde
Our tribe meets my test of a flourishing family: every generation has the contact information of their first cousins and, if they called any one of them, their voices would be immediately recognized.
Complete Family Wealth
James E. Hughes, Susan E. Massenzio, Keith Whitaker
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