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Page 121
... remained acceptable and been further simpli- fied as Professor Peano the mathematician was later to attempt - it might have served as the second language of learned discourse throughout the world . The failure by the moderns to realize ...
... remained acceptable and been further simpli- fied as Professor Peano the mathematician was later to attempt - it might have served as the second language of learned discourse throughout the world . The failure by the moderns to realize ...
Page 177
... remained - until the computer - the equal of all other automatic machines in refinement of construction and accuracy of operation ; and long before this further improvement took place in any other area , the reduction of the fifteenth ...
... remained - until the computer - the equal of all other automatic machines in refinement of construction and accuracy of operation ; and long before this further improvement took place in any other area , the reduction of the fifteenth ...
Page 322
... remained insufficient over the long run , either to pay for decent housing or to buy back the surplus of machine production and large - scale agriculture : hence periodic gluts in the market , corrected by devaluation or ' valorization ...
... remained insufficient over the long run , either to pay for decent housing or to buy back the surplus of machine production and large - scale agriculture : hence periodic gluts in the market , corrected by devaluation or ' valorization ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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