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Lewis Mumford. course of thousands of years had proved lethal , without inciting any serious attempt to weed them out . Neither cutting loose from the Old World in space , nor making a breach with its past , proved easy . Looking back we ...
Lewis Mumford. course of thousands of years had proved lethal , without inciting any serious attempt to weed them out . Neither cutting loose from the Old World in space , nor making a breach with its past , proved easy . Looking back we ...
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... proved to be an even greater and richer empire , open to colonization by the mind , than that claimed by military conquest and settlement . Eventually one particular place in Europe , the astronomical observa- tory at Greenwich , became ...
... proved to be an even greater and richer empire , open to colonization by the mind , than that claimed by military conquest and settlement . Eventually one particular place in Europe , the astronomical observa- tory at Greenwich , became ...
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... proved illuminating , it was uncertain , and difficult to validate , for different dream interpreters would often attach different values to the same images and plots . In reac- tion against this method , a group of contemporary ...
... proved illuminating , it was uncertain , and difficult to validate , for different dream interpreters would often attach different values to the same images and plots . In reac- tion against this method , a group of contemporary ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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