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... planet in the solar system , or still more improbably , to travel to one of the nearest stars , four or five light years away . Let us grant both projects as within the realm of mechanical if not biological possibility . But even if ...
... planet in the solar system , or still more improbably , to travel to one of the nearest stars , four or five light years away . Let us grant both projects as within the realm of mechanical if not biological possibility . But even if ...
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... planet of rock , air , ocean , and space ships , it would still be a world of nature . " In the light of natural ... planet that the geographer quoted foresees as a pos- sible future , man himself would have lacked all the necessary ...
... planet of rock , air , ocean , and space ships , it would still be a world of nature . " In the light of natural ... planet that the geographer quoted foresees as a pos- sible future , man himself would have lacked all the necessary ...
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... planets and the seasons . The machine that mechanized time did more than regulate the activities of the day : it ... planet . Karl Marx was one of the first to understand the place of the clock as the archetypal model for all later ...
... planets and the seasons . The machine that mechanized time did more than regulate the activities of the day : it ... planet . Karl Marx was one of the first to understand the place of the clock as the archetypal model for all later ...
Contents
PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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