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... advances - which , like the extensive use of windpower and water in mills , originated in the Middle Ages - had wrought a far more significant change in the human mind . The latter - day practice of dating this cultural change from the ...
... advances - which , like the extensive use of windpower and water in mills , originated in the Middle Ages - had wrought a far more significant change in the human mind . The latter - day practice of dating this cultural change from the ...
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... advances in high - speed flight . Increasingly , however , it is the advances of science that suggest a new technological application : witness laser beams . Indeed the by - products seem to multiply in direct relation to the scope and ...
... advances in high - speed flight . Increasingly , however , it is the advances of science that suggest a new technological application : witness laser beams . Indeed the by - products seem to multiply in direct relation to the scope and ...
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... advances in tools , weapons , and utensils that colored the nineteenth - century doctrines . But while evolution discloses occasional leaps and creative sorties , it also reveals lapses , reversions , arrests , and lethal maladaptations ...
... advances in tools , weapons , and utensils that colored the nineteenth - century doctrines . But while evolution discloses occasional leaps and creative sorties , it also reveals lapses , reversions , arrests , and lethal maladaptations ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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