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... significantly , the abstract model of the mechanical New World was framed in lines of latitude and longitude on ... significant change in the human mind . The latter - day practice of dating this cultural change from the seventeenth ...
... significantly , the abstract model of the mechanical New World was framed in lines of latitude and longitude on ... significant change in the human mind . The latter - day practice of dating this cultural change from the seventeenth ...
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... significant that the initiative in bringing about the release of nuclear energy , the central event in the recrudescence of the megamachine in modern form , was taken , not by the central government , but by a small group of physicists ...
... significant that the initiative in bringing about the release of nuclear energy , the central event in the recrudescence of the megamachine in modern form , was taken , not by the central government , but by a small group of physicists ...
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... significantly , it describes the difference between higher and lower organisms . Though all organisms undergo ... significant : if cut off from that future , he becomes as distraught as if he were cut off from his needed supply of ...
... significantly , it describes the difference between higher and lower organisms . Though all organisms undergo ... significant : if cut off from that future , he becomes as distraught as if he were cut off from his needed supply of ...
Contents
NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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