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Page 113
... knowledge , " knowing more and more about less and less , " finally turns into secret knowledge - accessible only to an inner priesthood , whose sense of power is in turn inflated by their privileged command of ' trade ' or official ...
... knowledge , " knowing more and more about less and less , " finally turns into secret knowledge - accessible only to an inner priesthood , whose sense of power is in turn inflated by their privileged command of ' trade ' or official ...
Page 174
... knowledge . In this area conventional mechanical automation has up to now played only a small part . As has happened again and again in technics , the critical step that led to general automation took place in the organization of knowledge ...
... knowledge . In this area conventional mechanical automation has up to now played only a small part . As has happened again and again in technics , the critical step that led to general automation took place in the organization of knowledge ...
Page 264
... knowledge might have proved greater but for the fact that each department of science had already become , in effect , a secret agency in its own right . The sciences are now so specialized in their vocabulary , so esoteric in their ...
... knowledge might have proved greater but for the fact that each department of science had already become , in effect , a secret agency in its own right . The sciences are now so specialized in their vocabulary , so esoteric in their ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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