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Page 85
... animal or human shape , ' animated ' as we say by clockwork , were the perfect embodiment of the royal demand for ... animal , we would have no means of knowing that they were in any respect of a different nature from these animals ...
... animal or human shape , ' animated ' as we say by clockwork , were the perfect embodiment of the royal demand for ... animal , we would have no means of knowing that they were in any respect of a different nature from these animals ...
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... animal hunter and beetle collector . With his lack of scholarly fixations and inhibitions , nothing prevented Darwin's awakening to every manifestation of the living environment : the geological formations , the coral reefs , the ...
... animal hunter and beetle collector . With his lack of scholarly fixations and inhibitions , nothing prevented Darwin's awakening to every manifestation of the living environment : the geological formations , the coral reefs , the ...
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... animal state of being . Through man's prolonged efforts at minding and making , he who was originally speechless , workless , houseless , artless , took on his supreme task - that of making himself human . To this end he utilized his ...
... animal state of being . Through man's prolonged efforts at minding and making , he who was originally speechless , workless , houseless , artless , took on his supreme task - that of making himself human . To this end he utilized his ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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