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... ideas , in order to remain alive , must be re - thought and re - tested by fresh experience from generation to generation . The next stage , toward a wider socialization of the idea , may be called ' incorporation ' : at last the ...
... ideas , in order to remain alive , must be re - thought and re - tested by fresh experience from generation to generation . The next stage , toward a wider socialization of the idea , may be called ' incorporation ' : at last the ...
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... idea , starts at just the opposite end by attacking the visible structures and organizations which , so long as they remain in good working order , allow no place for a new idea to take hold . The path of etherialization , then , is ...
... idea , starts at just the opposite end by attacking the visible structures and organizations which , so long as they remain in good working order , allow no place for a new idea to take hold . The path of etherialization , then , is ...
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... idea has been completely embodied , we can recognize that it had left no place for man . He is reduced to a standardized servo - mechanism : a left - over part from a more organic world . If ' Technics and Civilization ' and ' The Myth ...
... idea has been completely embodied , we can recognize that it had left no place for man . He is reduced to a standardized servo - mechanism : a left - over part from a more organic world . If ' Technics and Civilization ' and ' The Myth ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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