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... ancestors too often treated the earth as contemptuously and as brutally as they treated its original inhabi- tants , wiping out great animal species like the bison and the passenger pigeon , mining the soils instead of annually ...
... ancestors too often treated the earth as contemptuously and as brutally as they treated its original inhabi- tants , wiping out great animal species like the bison and the passenger pigeon , mining the soils instead of annually ...
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... ancestors into con- scious human beings . " I think , therefore I am " had meaning only because of this immense mass of buried history . Without that past , his momentary experience of thought would have been undescribable ; indeed ...
... ancestors into con- scious human beings . " I think , therefore I am " had meaning only because of this immense mass of buried history . Without that past , his momentary experience of thought would have been undescribable ; indeed ...
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... ancestors and would preserve him from relapsing into the cold - blooded world of the armored lizards and the flying reptiles , he himself denies the very source of love . For he sees personality as " a specifically corpuscular and ...
... ancestors and would preserve him from relapsing into the cold - blooded world of the armored lizards and the flying reptiles , he himself denies the very source of love . For he sees personality as " a specifically corpuscular and ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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