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... language , and it opened up a field of practical endeavor in which people with widely different inner worlds could never- theless collaborate . This common world of intelligent intercourse and cooperation has , in the face of national ...
... language , and it opened up a field of practical endeavor in which people with widely different inner worlds could never- theless collaborate . This common world of intelligent intercourse and cooperation has , in the face of national ...
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... language of this last sentence is obviously not the language of the disinterested speculative scientist : it was attached rather to the social motives that from the sixteenth century on had begun to play an ever more active part in the ...
... language of this last sentence is obviously not the language of the disinterested speculative scientist : it was attached rather to the social motives that from the sixteenth century on had begun to play an ever more active part in the ...
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... language of learned discourse throughout the world . The failure by the moderns to realize in time what was lost through abandoning a common language for national tongues is difficult to explain since it limited the range of ...
... language of learned discourse throughout the world . The failure by the moderns to realize in time what was lost through abandoning a common language for national tongues is difficult to explain since it limited the range of ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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