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Page 47
... possible failures . Like the artist in ' Rasselas , ' he might have said : " Nothing will ever be attempted , if all possible objections must be first overcome . " That this extravagant dream was not so easily translated into the prac ...
... possible failures . Like the artist in ' Rasselas , ' he might have said : " Nothing will ever be attempted , if all possible objections must be first overcome . " That this extravagant dream was not so easily translated into the prac ...
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... possible , as Bacon believed : but it does not thereby make all possible things desirable . A sound and viable technology , firmly related to human needs , cannot be one that has a maximum productivity as its supreme goal : it must ...
... possible , as Bacon believed : but it does not thereby make all possible things desirable . A sound and viable technology , firmly related to human needs , cannot be one that has a maximum productivity as its supreme goal : it must ...
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... possible destinations bear the least possible resem- blance to those organically rich habitats in which life and mind have actually flourished . To justify space travel , its exponents must brazenly vilify earthly life . And this is ...
... possible destinations bear the least possible resem- blance to those organically rich habitats in which life and mind have actually flourished . To justify space travel , its exponents must brazenly vilify earthly life . And this is ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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