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... TECHNICAL LIBERATION However slow in pace , pre - mechanized industry and agriculture relied so largely on manual labor that this gave it a freedom and flexibility that a system more dependent upon a permanent assemblage of specialized ...
... TECHNICAL LIBERATION However slow in pace , pre - mechanized industry and agriculture relied so largely on manual labor that this gave it a freedom and flexibility that a system more dependent upon a permanent assemblage of specialized ...
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... technical skills than had ever achieved a worldwide prove- nance before , but as a result of fundamental discoveries about nature , physical and biological , it had disclosed fresh potentialities for a marvel- lous future — a future ...
... technical skills than had ever achieved a worldwide prove- nance before , but as a result of fundamental discoveries about nature , physical and biological , it had disclosed fresh potentialities for a marvel- lous future — a future ...
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... Technical advances , misreading of , 145 Technical development , case for , 195 Technical heritage , belated preservation of , 156 Technical improvements , foreign origins of , 132 Technical innovations , liberating influence of , 237 ...
... Technical advances , misreading of , 145 Technical development , case for , 195 Technical heritage , belated preservation of , 156 Technical improvements , foreign origins of , 132 Technical innovations , liberating influence of , 237 ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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