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... religion itself was not excluded : for a new religion had in fact secretly come into existence : so secretly that its most devout worshippers still do not recognize that it is in fact a religion . CHAPTER TWO Return of the Sun God 1 ...
... religion itself was not excluded : for a new religion had in fact secretly come into existence : so secretly that its most devout worshippers still do not recognize that it is in fact a religion . CHAPTER TWO Return of the Sun God 1 ...
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... religious phenomenon : the return of the Sky Gods , and especially the Sun God . Not that the religion of the Sun God had ever entirely disappeared : in the new institutional practices derived from solar theology , which took shape in ...
... religious phenomenon : the return of the Sky Gods , and especially the Sun God . Not that the religion of the Sun God had ever entirely disappeared : in the new institutional practices derived from solar theology , which took shape in ...
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... religion , the religion of the Sky Gods . And in my treatment of the scientific and technical transition after the fifteenth century , as the reader must be aware , I have steadily kept an eye on this approaching consummation . When one ...
... religion , the religion of the Sky Gods . And in my treatment of the scientific and technical transition after the fifteenth century , as the reader must be aware , I have steadily kept an eye on this approaching consummation . When one ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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