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Page 67
... reason for taking it certainly no mechanical world picture and no fresh generation of machines ! Yet for all its ... reason of the plan of the body . " And , one may now add , an electron within an oxygen atom is different from one in a ...
... reason for taking it certainly no mechanical world picture and no fresh generation of machines ! Yet for all its ... reason of the plan of the body . " And , one may now add , an electron within an oxygen atom is different from one in a ...
Page 83
... reason further dictates that , since all our thoughts cannot be true because of our partial imperfection , those possess- ing truth must infallibly be founded in the experience of our waking moments rather than in that of our dreams ...
... reason further dictates that , since all our thoughts cannot be true because of our partial imperfection , those possess- ing truth must infallibly be founded in the experience of our waking moments rather than in that of our dreams ...
Page 155
... reason whatever to make a wholesale choice between handicraft and machine production : between a single contemporary part of the technological pool and all the other past accumulations . But there was a genuine reason to maintain as ...
... reason whatever to make a wholesale choice between handicraft and machine production : between a single contemporary part of the technological pool and all the other past accumulations . But there was a genuine reason to maintain as ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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