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... nature largely took the form of a series of questions , put almost at random , about the natural world . Brian Lawn ... nature and a science based on nature than the learned scholar , putting these random questions in Latin verse . Not ...
... nature largely took the form of a series of questions , put almost at random , about the natural world . Brian Lawn ... nature and a science based on nature than the learned scholar , putting these random questions in Latin verse . Not ...
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... nature is in effect to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial , fabricated equiva- lents for natural processes : to replace the immense variety of resources offered by nature by more uniform ...
... nature is in effect to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial , fabricated equiva- lents for natural processes : to replace the immense variety of resources offered by nature by more uniform ...
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... nature into a relation of mutual aid and rational accommodation , threatens to undermine the power - pentagon and the scheme of life derived from it . Now this supposed necessity to conquer nature is not quite so innocent in either its ...
... nature into a relation of mutual aid and rational accommodation , threatens to undermine the power - pentagon and the scheme of life derived from it . Now this supposed necessity to conquer nature is not quite so innocent in either its ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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