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Page 45
... taken by the planets around the sun : the religious side , in his open adoration of the sun itself and the starry sky as a substantial visible equivalent of the fading Christian Heaven : and finally , his untrammeled technical ...
... taken by the planets around the sun : the religious side , in his open adoration of the sun itself and the starry sky as a substantial visible equivalent of the fading Christian Heaven : and finally , his untrammeled technical ...
Page 257
... taken in the nineteenth century , even without the stimulus of war and the deliberate invention of the atom bomb . But it would probably have taken more than a century to get to the same point that was reached in less than a decade ...
... taken in the nineteenth century , even without the stimulus of war and the deliberate invention of the atom bomb . But it would probably have taken more than a century to get to the same point that was reached in less than a decade ...
Page 375
... taken no account of and had done nothing to alleviate ? The fact that this revolt has taken place within the once anti - liberal Catholic Church , and even more surprisingly among the Bishops and within the monastic orders , indicates ...
... taken no account of and had done nothing to alleviate ? The fact that this revolt has taken place within the once anti - liberal Catholic Church , and even more surprisingly among the Bishops and within the monastic orders , indicates ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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