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John Gray, the History of Magic, and More

John Gray, the History of Magic, and More

“What men of erudition had once considered ‘magic’ increasingly began to look like ‘technology’.”

Dec 05, 2023
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John Gray: “If you think in what are called secular terms, you can’t really understand the world that we now live in”... more »

“As the centuries passed, what men of erudition had once considered ‘magic’ increasingly began to look like ‘technology’”... more »

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