By the *third century BC* the wonderful world of the Yang-shao
farmers and Lungshan peasants living peacefullly together and
practicing an extensive system of cultivation, i.e, shifting or slash
and burn agriculture, with only a rudimentary degree of social
stratification, had long been
Marshall Berman on Faust 'The Developer'
Suddenly Faust springs up enraged: Why should men let things
go on being the way they have always been? Isn't it about time for
mankind to assert itself against nature's tyrannical arrogance, to
confront natural forces in the name of 'the free spirit