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... Patrick Geddes , still an optimistic Victorian at heart though tempered by the realistic pessimism of Carlyle and Ruskin , used to say equally about ideas or projects : " We must be getting on , " and he held it a sufficient ...
... Patrick Geddes , still an optimistic Victorian at heart though tempered by the realistic pessimism of Carlyle and Ruskin , used to say equally about ideas or projects : " We must be getting on , " and he held it a sufficient ...
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... Patrick Geddes : Maker of the Future . Chapel Hill , N.C .: 1944 . Useful on Geddes ' educational ideas ; but fortunately an enlarged and enriched study by Boardman is now in preparation . Bodleian Library Record : July 1968 . Report on ...
... Patrick Geddes : Maker of the Future . Chapel Hill , N.C .: 1944 . Useful on Geddes ' educational ideas ; but fortunately an enlarged and enriched study by Boardman is now in preparation . Bodleian Library Record : July 1968 . Report on ...
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... Geddes , Patrick . An Analysis of the Principles of Economics . Part I. London : 1885 . Geddes , Patrick , and J. Arthur Thomson . Life : Outlines of Biology . 2 vols . New York : 1931 . The best summation of Geddes ' outlook and method ...
... Geddes , Patrick . An Analysis of the Principles of Economics . Part I. London : 1885 . Geddes , Patrick , and J. Arthur Thomson . Life : Outlines of Biology . 2 vols . New York : 1931 . The best summation of Geddes ' outlook and method ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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