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... picture or a sculpture , but a moving picture of things , events , processes ... mechanical apparatus and symbolic abstractions , into a quanti- tative system , free ... world when the scientific observer eliminates his own subjective ...
... picture or a sculpture , but a moving picture of things , events , processes ... mechanical apparatus and symbolic abstractions , into a quanti- tative system , free ... world when the scientific observer eliminates his own subjective ...
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... mechanical invention alone . In one of his notes he wrote : " Would that it ... world picture . He knew that the man he dissected and accurately depicted ... mechanical inventions : the man he dissected or accurately represented on paper ...
... mechanical invention alone . In one of his notes he wrote : " Would that it ... world picture . He knew that the man he dissected and accurately depicted ... mechanical inventions : the man he dissected or accurately represented on paper ...
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... World picture , mechanical , 289 Writing , invention of , 192 Xanthodides , Stephanos , 22 Xosa irrationality , 56 Yahgans , 79 Yam , 130 ; wide distribu- tion of , 133 Year , as human artifact , 33 Yeats , William Butler , 23 Yoshinobu ...
... World picture , mechanical , 289 Writing , invention of , 192 Xanthodides , Stephanos , 22 Xosa irrationality , 56 Yahgans , 79 Yam , 130 ; wide distribu- tion of , 133 Year , as human artifact , 33 Yeats , William Butler , 23 Yoshinobu ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
THE GIFT OF TONGUES | 72 |
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