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... withdrawal modern physicists concentrated on the development of atomic theory and on the perfection of instruments leading to the release of atomic energy , without the faintest concern - until they finally faced the results of their ...
... withdrawal modern physicists concentrated on the development of atomic theory and on the perfection of instruments leading to the release of atomic energy , without the faintest concern - until they finally faced the results of their ...
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... withdrawal becomes general , we will have to create a special social structure for it : let us call the new form of cloister The Great Good Place in honor of the fable in which Henry James not merely diagnosed the formidable pressures ...
... withdrawal becomes general , we will have to create a special social structure for it : let us call the new form of cloister The Great Good Place in honor of the fable in which Henry James not merely diagnosed the formidable pressures ...
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... withdrawal , of our fasting and purgation , is to re- awaken our appetite for life , to make us keen to discriminate between food and poison and ready to exercise choice . Once we have taken the preparatory steps , we must return to the ...
... withdrawal , of our fasting and purgation , is to re- awaken our appetite for life , to make us keen to discriminate between food and poison and ready to exercise choice . Once we have taken the preparatory steps , we must return to the ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF | 92 |
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