Dr. Herbert J. Muller was an American historian, government official, and Distinguished Service Professor of English and Government at Indiana 카지노게임사이트, where he joined the faculty in 1956. Prior to this, he taught at Cornell, where he completed his undergraduate and graduate studies, until 1935. From 1935 to 1956, he was a faculty member at Purdue 카지노게임사이트. During this period, he spent two years as a visiting professor at the 카지노게임사이트 of Istanbul. He studied the evolution of freedom in society and wrote a three-volume history of freedom. He also authored The Uses of the Past: Profiles of Former Societies (1952), a sweeping inquiry into the lessons of history, focusing Christianity and Judaism in Rome, Greece, the Byzantine empire, Russia, and China. He later wrote The Children of Frankenstein: A Primer on Modern Technology and Human Values (1970). A Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s Journal editorial called Muller 카지노 게임 컬렉션a man who can see a great many civilizations at once, and who does not rest his assumptions on the presumption that ours is superior.카지노 게임 컬렉션 He died in 1980.
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