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... became mechanically possible , this polytechnics had broken through national barriers and drawn upon a planet - wide culture . Since this vital agricultural revolution owed nothing to later mechanization till the middle of the ...
... became mechanically possible , this polytechnics had broken through national barriers and drawn upon a planet - wide culture . Since this vital agricultural revolution owed nothing to later mechanization till the middle of the ...
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... became firmly established through the leading national mega- machines in the Second World War : namely , such an unlimited demand as only war - or pseudo - war - makes possible . Under national conscription , a ' Nation in Arms ' became ...
... became firmly established through the leading national mega- machines in the Second World War : namely , such an unlimited demand as only war - or pseudo - war - makes possible . Under national conscription , a ' Nation in Arms ' became ...
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... became plain , was not only truer to life , but it proved quite as miraculous as any single act of creation . The greatest lesson of the new natural history was the lesson of history itself : the lesson of life's cumulative domination ...
... became plain , was not only truer to life , but it proved quite as miraculous as any single act of creation . The greatest lesson of the new natural history was the lesson of history itself : the lesson of life's cumulative domination ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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