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Homo Ludens Paladin Press (1970)In the Shadow of Tomorrow (1936)Life and Thought in America (1972)Men and Ideas (1948-1953, trans. 1959)Men and Ideas Paladin Press (1959)

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The more the specific feelings of being under obligation range themselves under a supreme principle of human dependence the clearer and more fertile will be the realization of the concept, indispensable to all true culture, of service; from the service of God down to the simple social relationship as between employer and employee.

Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga (1872–1945), Dutch historian. In the Shadow of Tomorrow, ch. 4 (1936).

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