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... progress were too committed to their doctrine to anticipate that the authoritarian institutions they sought to destroy forever might come back more oppressively than ever, fortified through the very science and technics that they valued ...
... progress were too committed to their doctrine to anticipate that the authoritarian institutions they sought to destroy forever might come back more oppressively than ever, fortified through the very science and technics that they valued ...
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... progress but the smug feeling of superiority and security enjoyed by the British upper classes, who thought that in time humane intelligence would assume control of every institution and even ensure that the comforts and luxuries of the ...
... progress but the smug feeling of superiority and security enjoyed by the British upper classes, who thought that in time humane intelligence would assume control of every institution and even ensure that the comforts and luxuries of the ...
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... progress guaranteed parallel human benefits was already dubious by 1851, the year of the Crystal Palace Exhibition, and now has become completely untenable. Both the early hopes for scientific and technical progress, and the later sense ...
... progress guaranteed parallel human benefits was already dubious by 1851, the year of the Crystal Palace Exhibition, and now has become completely untenable. Both the early hopes for scientific and technical progress, and the later sense ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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