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... totalitarian features that Bulwer - Lytton shrank from . Bel- lamy , indeed , was so enamored of the economic potentialities of large - scale organization and mechanization , as in an army , that he did not hesitate to accept military ...
... totalitarian features that Bulwer - Lytton shrank from . Bel- lamy , indeed , was so enamored of the economic potentialities of large - scale organization and mechanization , as in an army , that he did not hesitate to accept military ...
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... totalitarian megamachine . Again his own words back up this grim con- clusion . " Monstrous as it is , " Chardin observes again in ' The Phenomenon of Man , ' " is not modern totalitarianism really the distortion of something ...
... totalitarian megamachine . Again his own words back up this grim con- clusion . " Monstrous as it is , " Chardin observes again in ' The Phenomenon of Man , ' " is not modern totalitarianism really the distortion of something ...
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... totalitarian , 233 , 249 Totalitarian mass extermination , 233 , 249 Totalitarian system , 264 ; Nemesis of , 250 ; new equipment for , 248-249 Totalitarian utopia , Cabet's , 213 Totalitarianism , Teilhard de Chardin's praise of , 318 ...
... totalitarian , 233 , 249 Totalitarian mass extermination , 233 , 249 Totalitarian system , 264 ; Nemesis of , 250 ; new equipment for , 248-249 Totalitarian utopia , Cabet's , 213 Totalitarianism , Teilhard de Chardin's praise of , 318 ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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