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Page 203
... survival of the fittest , ' these facts would have been identified and appraised long before now . To believe that a later point in time necessarily carries a larger accumu- lation of values , or that the latest invention necessarily ...
... survival of the fittest , ' these facts would have been identified and appraised long before now . To believe that a later point in time necessarily carries a larger accumu- lation of values , or that the latest invention necessarily ...
Page 307
... survive under hardships and deprivations as formidable as those encountered by the climbers who topped Mount Everest ... survival in space are , it need hardly be emphasized , the precise opposite of an imitation of nature's exuberance ...
... survive under hardships and deprivations as formidable as those encountered by the climbers who topped Mount Everest ... survival in space are , it need hardly be emphasized , the precise opposite of an imitation of nature's exuberance ...
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... survival value in the struggle for existence . It may add to the attraction of a lily to have all its sexual organs displayed among teasingly open petals ; but the huge success of so many compositae , like the daisy and the goldenrod ...
... survival value in the struggle for existence . It may add to the attraction of a lily to have all its sexual organs displayed among teasingly open petals ; but the huge success of so many compositae , like the daisy and the goldenrod ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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