| Author Quoted | Hannah Arendt |
| Title Quoted | Human Condition |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1960/06/01 |
| Imprint | Chicago : University of Chicago Press. c1958 |
| Quotation | Hannah Arendt writes of the Greek πόλις‚ [polis] - "Before men began to act, a definite space had to be secured and a structure built where all subsequent actions could take place, the space being the public realm of the polis and its structure the law." [The Human Condition (Chicago, 1958)] |
| Quotation Source | Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 4, 1960-1963.; Edited by Victor A. Kramer. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 5 |
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