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... tool - using and tool - making . Furthermore , in defiance of contemporary dogma , they did not regard scientific discovery and tech- nological invention as the sole object of human existence ; for I have taken life itself to be the ...
... tool - using and tool - making . Furthermore , in defiance of contemporary dogma , they did not regard scientific discovery and tech- nological invention as the sole object of human existence ; for I have taken life itself to be the ...
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... making , and who used their craft experience to interpret the in- structions of engineers or scientists . For the ... tool of any kind , but he was quite splendid with an eighteen - inch file . " As with the meticulous craftsmanship that ...
... making , and who used their craft experience to interpret the in- structions of engineers or scientists . For the ... tool of any kind , but he was quite splendid with an eighteen - inch file . " As with the meticulous craftsmanship that ...
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... tool - using and tool - making , what then should one say about the cumulative results of mechanization and automation , as they affect man's adaptive intelligence ? What merit is there in an over - developed technology which isolates ...
... tool - using and tool - making , what then should one say about the cumulative results of mechanization and automation , as they affect man's adaptive intelligence ? What merit is there in an over - developed technology which isolates ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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