Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her"A West Coast feminist and poet draws from myth, legend, history, religion, sociology, science, and other sources to trace the evolution of attitudes toward and perceptions of women and nature."--Goodreads website. |
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... merely evidence . That there are three degrees of abstraction , each leading to higher truths . The scientist peels away uniqueness , revealing category ; the mathematician peels away sensual fact , revealing number ; the meta ...
... merely evidence . That there are three degrees of abstraction , each leading to higher truths . The scientist peels away uniqueness , revealing category ; the mathematician peels away sensual fact , revealing number ; the meta ...
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... merely fetal stages of man , it is decided . And striving to be man , the worm Mounts through all the spires of form it is sung . It is declared then that man is an animal , and he is the most perfect animal . That according to the laws ...
... merely fetal stages of man , it is decided . And striving to be man , the worm Mounts through all the spires of form it is sung . It is declared then that man is an animal , and he is the most perfect animal . That according to the laws ...
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... merely the survival of the fittest , merely the working out of a law of nature and a law of God . ) And it is postulated that each organism is a product of a struggle for existence among the molecules . That the human body is a product ...
... merely the survival of the fittest , merely the working out of a law of nature and a law of God . ) And it is postulated that each organism is a product of a struggle for existence among the molecules . That the human body is a product ...
Contents
MATTER | 3 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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