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... final solution to the problems of mankind , only in the sense that Hitler's extermination program was a final solution for the ' Jewish problem . ' 6 : THE PARADOX OF AUTOMATION Here we face the great paradox of automation , put once ...
... final solution to the problems of mankind , only in the sense that Hitler's extermination program was a final solution for the ' Jewish problem . ' 6 : THE PARADOX OF AUTOMATION Here we face the great paradox of automation , put once ...
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... final example , selected only because it is regrettably typical . In ' Genetics and the Future of Man , ' a social scientist , highly re- spected as a population expert , has declared that deliberate genetic control is " bound to occur ...
... final example , selected only because it is regrettably typical . In ' Genetics and the Future of Man , ' a social scientist , highly re- spected as a population expert , has declared that deliberate genetic control is " bound to occur ...
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... final delight . In a hundred avant - garde theaters all over the world , the scenario for this ugly ritual has already been written - yes , and partly enacted . What Bazarov's comparatively humane nihilists only began , the savage ...
... final delight . In a hundred avant - garde theaters all over the world , the scenario for this ugly ritual has already been written - yes , and partly enacted . What Bazarov's comparatively humane nihilists only began , the savage ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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