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... hunting parties ' for pleasure , to slaughter the surviving natives : a people more primitive , scholars believe , than the Australian natives , who should have been preserved , so to say , under glass , for the benefit of later ...
... hunting parties ' for pleasure , to slaughter the surviving natives : a people more primitive , scholars believe , than the Australian natives , who should have been preserved , so to say , under glass , for the benefit of later ...
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... hunting dog , this is a peasant mowing , this is a sly old priest . Though in both cases the mind was handicapped for lack of an abstract framework and method , the craftsman was nearer to nature and a science based on nature than the ...
... hunting dog , this is a peasant mowing , this is a sly old priest . Though in both cases the mind was handicapped for lack of an abstract framework and method , the craftsman was nearer to nature and a science based on nature than the ...
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... hunting chiefs and proto - monarchs whose bloody maces had subdued the unarmed gardeners and farmers of Egypt and Sumer ; and in the very act of inventing , organizing , and diffusing the genuine goods of civilization , some of which ...
... hunting chiefs and proto - monarchs whose bloody maces had subdued the unarmed gardeners and farmers of Egypt and Sumer ; and in the very act of inventing , organizing , and diffusing the genuine goods of civilization , some of which ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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