Science and Life: Aberdeen AddressesJ. Murray, 1920 - 229 páginas This work is a collection of addresses and articles written at Aberdeen University regarding the interaction between science and society. |
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... regard to industry , politics , social conditions and relationships is surely an indictment of the rule of the possessive and acquisitive more powerful than any judge could frame . The claim is so often made that brains and labour are ...
... regard to industry , politics , social conditions and relationships is surely an indictment of the rule of the possessive and acquisitive more powerful than any judge could frame . The claim is so often made that brains and labour are ...
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... regard merely the physical attributes of life and ignore the moral , æsthetic and spiritual aspects , then , un- doubtedly , the body is a machine . Especially during sleep is the parallel exact . It is a machine set to run ...
... regard merely the physical attributes of life and ignore the moral , æsthetic and spiritual aspects , then , un- doubtedly , the body is a machine . Especially during sleep is the parallel exact . It is a machine set to run ...
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... , awakened by the realisa- tion of the true position which man occupies with regard to the external realities of nature , or an THE CONTROL OF WEALTH 45 impossible compromise between this and 44 CHEMISTRY AND NATIONAL PROSPERITY.
... , awakened by the realisa- tion of the true position which man occupies with regard to the external realities of nature , or an THE CONTROL OF WEALTH 45 impossible compromise between this and 44 CHEMISTRY AND NATIONAL PROSPERITY.
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... regard to the relations of man to energy and matter . Instead of being between these two as between a steam - hammer and an anvil , he has climbed to the controlling gear and has his hand upon the valve . And the hand on this valve is ...
... regard to the relations of man to energy and matter . Instead of being between these two as between a steam - hammer and an anvil , he has climbed to the controlling gear and has his hand upon the valve . And the hand on this valve is ...
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... regard science as something particularly associated with the waging of war and to look upon scientific men as a class as under the suspicion of being in the pay of the great armament firms of the world , and as finding , in the ...
... regard science as something particularly associated with the waging of war and to look upon scientific men as a class as under the suspicion of being in the pay of the great armament firms of the world , and as finding , in the ...
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