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... modern world picture. He was already aware, through his willingness to inspect his own dreams, of the terrible potentialities for destruction and dehumanization that might lie in store for modern man unless his self-knowledge and his ...
... modern world picture. He was already aware, through his willingness to inspect his own dreams, of the terrible potentialities for destruction and dehumanization that might lie in store for modern man unless his self-knowledge and his ...
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... modern megamachine that did not exist, in fact or in dream, in the original model. What is distinctly modern is the effective materialization of archaic dreams that had hitherto been technologically impracticable. With the coalition of ...
... modern megamachine that did not exist, in fact or in dream, in the original model. What is distinctly modern is the effective materialization of archaic dreams that had hitherto been technologically impracticable. With the coalition of ...
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... Modern World. New York: 1923. Still one of the effective analyses of the naive metaphysics that most physical scientists since Galileo and Descartes regarded as the ultimate basis of 'modern,' that is scientific, thought. See also ...
... Modern World. New York: 1923. Still one of the effective analyses of the naive metaphysics that most physical scientists since Galileo and Descartes regarded as the ultimate basis of 'modern,' that is scientific, thought. See also ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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