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... importance for the later processes of industrializa- tion performed by the new exploration . The organic sciences ... important , and it was Western man's unreadiness for cooperative two - way intercourse - his egoism , his vanity ...
... importance for the later processes of industrializa- tion performed by the new exploration . The organic sciences ... important , and it was Western man's unreadiness for cooperative two - way intercourse - his egoism , his vanity ...
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... important , its archaic moral culture held the rest of society together : for though it still maintained many effete , irrational customs , it also kept close to the ultimate realities of life , human and divine : birth and death , sex ...
... important , its archaic moral culture held the rest of society together : for though it still maintained many effete , irrational customs , it also kept close to the ultimate realities of life , human and divine : birth and death , sex ...
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... importance of , 61 Experts , massive errors of , [ 7 ] ; self - ap- pointed , 271 ; vanity of , 260 Exploits , progressive technical , 284 Exploration , age of , 3 ; complementary kinds of , 3 ; cosmic , sterile terminus of , 379 ; ...
... importance of , 61 Experts , massive errors of , [ 7 ] ; self - ap- pointed , 271 ; vanity of , 260 Exploits , progressive technical , 284 Exploration , age of , 3 ; complementary kinds of , 3 ; cosmic , sterile terminus of , 379 ; ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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absolute abstract achieved activities actually already ancient atom automatic automation Bacon become biological Christian civilization Comenius communication contemporary cosmic culture Descartes destruction dream economy economy of abundance effect electronic energy environment established evolution existence experience exploration extermination fact fantasies final forces Francis Bacon functions further future Galileo habitat Henry Adams idea ideology immense increase industrial institutions intelligence invention Kepler knowledge labor limited machine man's mass production mechanical world picture megamachine megatechnics ment merely method military mind mode modern moral nature nineteenth century noƶsphere Norbert Wiener nuclear observed once original Patrick Geddes physical planet plenitude political absolutism population possible potentialities power complex power system practical present progress purpose Pyramid Age quantity reality result scientific scientists social society space subjective symbolic technical Technics and Civilization technocratic tion totalitarian transformation turn ultimate utopia Western whole York