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... energy and goods with equally rapid consumption and destruction : that indeed deliberately forces consumption or waste , through incessant , superficial changes of fashion , of otherwise durable goods ? If the first was in fact ...
... energy and goods with equally rapid consumption and destruction : that indeed deliberately forces consumption or waste , through incessant , superficial changes of fashion , of otherwise durable goods ? If the first was in fact ...
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... energy available for both constructive and destructive social uses has been one of the main marks of technological progress , not only from the thirteenth century onward , as Henry Adams pointed out , but from the ear- liest beginnings ...
... energy available for both constructive and destructive social uses has been one of the main marks of technological progress , not only from the thirteenth century onward , as Henry Adams pointed out , but from the ear- liest beginnings ...
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... energy . Even before historians of technics had put together the evidence for the increased utilization of energy after the twelfth century , Adams had , in outlining this change , quietly abandoned the misleading notion of the eigh ...
... energy . Even before historians of technics had put together the evidence for the increased utilization of energy after the twelfth century , Adams had , in outlining this change , quietly abandoned the misleading notion of the eigh ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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