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... universal . Its exponents , even if they are able to recognize its deficiencies , see no way of overcoming them except by a further exten- sion of automation and cybernation . Thus a large - scale processing of compulsory leisure is now ...
... universal . Its exponents , even if they are able to recognize its deficiencies , see no way of overcoming them except by a further exten- sion of automation and cybernation . Thus a large - scale processing of compulsory leisure is now ...
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... universal service ' ) as an essential instrument for mass control , has been passed over by modern political and historical scholars with incredible frivolity or equally incredible blindness . Though no other factor has done more to add ...
... universal service ' ) as an essential instrument for mass control , has been passed over by modern political and historical scholars with incredible frivolity or equally incredible blindness . Though no other factor has done more to add ...
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... Universal Man , ' Renascence examples of , 162 Universal society , higher potentialities of , 404 ; technological backwardness in realizing , 224 Universe , man's conquest of , 291 ; mathe- matical language of , 53 Universities ...
... Universal Man , ' Renascence examples of , 162 Universal society , higher potentialities of , 404 ; technological backwardness in realizing , 224 Universe , man's conquest of , 291 ; mathe- matical language of , 53 Universities ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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