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... environment , exploring every wood , field , and riverbank around Concord , he furthered his family business ... environment cut solely to the measure of the machine . This ideology gave primacy to the denatured and dehumanized ...
... environment , exploring every wood , field , and riverbank around Concord , he furthered his family business ... environment cut solely to the measure of the machine . This ideology gave primacy to the denatured and dehumanized ...
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... environment itself : partly this has been effected , as already noted , by re - enforcing conformity with tangible ... environment , human and natural - an environment full of difficulties , temptations , hard choices , challenges ...
... environment itself : partly this has been effected , as already noted , by re - enforcing conformity with tangible ... environment , human and natural - an environment full of difficulties , temptations , hard choices , challenges ...
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... environment ; and even in that environment he was more aware of the edibility of plants and the activities of birds and animals than he was of purely physical manifestations of nature , except when they occurred violently , as in storms ...
... environment ; and even in that environment he was more aware of the edibility of plants and the activities of birds and animals than he was of purely physical manifestations of nature , except when they occurred violently , as in storms ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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