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    to slow the approach of World War I.  (Barbara Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A

    Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914, Bantam Books, New York, 1967,

    pp. 335-6.)

    133. Marvin Harris, Cannibals and Kings: The Origins of Cultures, pp. 104-108;

    Marshall D. Sahlins, "Poor Man, Rich Man, Big-Man, Chief," in James P. Spradley

    and David W. McCurdy, Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural

    Anthropology, p. 308.

    134. Ruth Benedict, Patterns of Culture, p. 178.  Allen W. Johnson & Timothy

    Earle, The Evolution of Human Societies: From Foraging Group to Agrarian State,

    pp. 168-169.  Marvin Harris, Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches: The Riddles of

    Culture, pp. 94-98.

    135. James Burke, Connections, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1978, p. 87.

    136. Jane Goodall, In The Shadow of Man, pp. 34, 171, 200-202, 205-207.  Nancy

    Makepeace Tanner, On Becoming Human: A Model of the Transition From Ape to

    Human & The Reconstruction of Early Human Social Life, pp. 79-80.

    137. The power of generosity to arouse resentment in the recipient has been

    confirmed by social psychology experiments performed in the U.S., Sweden and

    Japan.  Among the conclusions: "the subjects who received the help were more

    likely to appreciate and like the donor if the donor was relatively poor rather than

    wealthy" and "Recipients...are... likely to reject the helper if they see the help as

    diminishing their own self-esteem...."  (Bertram H. Raven and Jeffrey Z. Rubin,

    Social Psychology, pp. 337-344.)

    138. "One of the most widely spread traits of human beings, manifest under the

    most diverse types of social order, is the desire for prestige." Melville J. Herskovits,

    Economic Anthropology: The Economic Life of Primitive Peoples, p. 38.

    139. Claude Brown, "Manchild in Harlem," New York Times Sunday Magazine,

    September 16,   1984, pp. 36-41.

    140. Only three of the thousand Masada defenders remained alive.

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