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... cosmic order. In the course of less than a century the sun changed its position in the minds of learned observers: it was no longer a satellite or servant, but the master of human existence. In terms of the new deity all complex ...
... cosmic order. In the course of less than a century the sun changed its position in the minds of learned observers: it was no longer a satellite or servant, but the master of human existence. In terms of the new deity all complex ...
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... cosmic rays, long unperceived, some doubtless still to be identified, over which man himself can have little, if any, control. What was lacking in this original picture was the realization that man himself was also a cosmic event ...
... cosmic rays, long unperceived, some doubtless still to be identified, over which man himself can have little, if any, control. What was lacking in this original picture was the realization that man himself was also a cosmic event ...
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... cosmic or the human drama makes sense. In so far as the universal religions, and not a few more primitive cults and myths, have had some sense of the all-enveloping cosmic process as more significant than anything that is immediately ...
... cosmic or the human drama makes sense. In so far as the universal religions, and not a few more primitive cults and myths, have had some sense of the all-enveloping cosmic process as more significant than anything that is immediately ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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