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Early or mythical society is noted for its firmness in its ways of life. Gods were real there, and they could be encountered at every step of man’s life. Unwritten but firm laws and rigid norms guiding man’s activities at home and in broader society were highly respected and well kept. This was so because their originators were gods, and every lawbreaker was considered an offender against divine order (logos as it was thought of by the early Greek philosophers).
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© 1972 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Vycinas, V. (1972). Nature and Man. In: Search for Gods. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2816-5_4
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