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Page 43
... dream , the utopian , the romantic and naturalistic , and the mechanical , one must realize that the first two had vanished as tangible possibilities well before the last frontier had been conquered . This left the mechanical power ...
... dream , the utopian , the romantic and naturalistic , and the mechanical , one must realize that the first two had vanished as tangible possibilities well before the last frontier had been conquered . This left the mechanical power ...
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... Dream , ' which anticipated by more than three centuries the world in which we are now actually living : its empirical knowledge , its practical devices , its compulsive drives , its mystic aspirations — and finally , most remarkably ...
... Dream , ' which anticipated by more than three centuries the world in which we are now actually living : its empirical knowledge , its practical devices , its compulsive drives , its mystic aspirations — and finally , most remarkably ...
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... dream . But the hope of directly eliciting information about the contents of dreams from data so gathered is baseless : as impos- sible as deducing the sensation of color by counting its vibrations . Only someone who can subjectively ...
... dream . But the hope of directly eliciting information about the contents of dreams from data so gathered is baseless : as impos- sible as deducing the sensation of color by counting its vibrations . Only someone who can subjectively ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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