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Lewis Mumford. ment, with its Procrustean simplifications, to democratic government, with its divided powers, its tenacious traditions, its embarrassing historic contradictions, its confusions and compromises and obscurities. But the ...
Lewis Mumford. ment, with its Procrustean simplifications, to democratic government, with its divided powers, its tenacious traditions, its embarrassing historic contradictions, its confusions and compromises and obscurities. But the ...
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Lewis Mumford. ment in works of art, and the conservative traditions of the old handicrafts, kept any one part of this economy from becoming heedlessly dynamic, or lopsidedly dominant. By the sixteenth century in the more advanced ...
Lewis Mumford. ment in works of art, and the conservative traditions of the old handicrafts, kept any one part of this economy from becoming heedlessly dynamic, or lopsidedly dominant. By the sixteenth century in the more advanced ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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