The pentagon of powerHarcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970 - 496 pages |
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... immense authority that the astronomical and mechanical world picture exerted — and still exerts — over many of the most able minds. Unfortunately, just as behind the terrestrial exploration stalked demonic and criminal impulses that ...
... immense authority that the astronomical and mechanical world picture exerted — and still exerts — over many of the most able minds. Unfortunately, just as behind the terrestrial exploration stalked demonic and criminal impulses that ...
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... immense wealth of technical traditions was to install a limited number of sample specimens in museums of art and natural history, and to collect a trickle of information — rarely adequate — about processes and methods from travellers ...
... immense wealth of technical traditions was to install a limited number of sample specimens in museums of art and natural history, and to collect a trickle of information — rarely adequate — about processes and methods from travellers ...
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... immense, still impending total human sacrifice cannot be appraised in the rational or scientific terms that those who have created this system favor: it is, I stress again, an essentially religious phenomenon. As such it offers a close ...
... immense, still impending total human sacrifice cannot be appraised in the rational or scientific terms that those who have created this system favor: it is, I stress again, an essentially religious phenomenon. As such it offers a close ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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