Science and Life: Aberdeen AdressesE. P. Dutton, 1920 - 229 páginas |
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... ancient wisdom of those who lived directly on sunlight . A prolonged course of pettifogging crofting fits no man to administer vast possessions . With the exception of a few , to whom it is a hobby , public men in this country are as ...
... ancient wisdom of those who lived directly on sunlight . A prolonged course of pettifogging crofting fits no man to administer vast possessions . With the exception of a few , to whom it is a hobby , public men in this country are as ...
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... ancient seats of learning to be left untouched and unreformed amid the startling and dangerous innovations of science , as a sanctuary for what was noble and enduring in the thought of the past , may have perpetuated an anachronism ...
... ancient seats of learning to be left untouched and unreformed amid the startling and dangerous innovations of science , as a sanctuary for what was noble and enduring in the thought of the past , may have perpetuated an anachronism ...
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... ancient languages , so no adequate appreciation of the newer scientific humanities can be derived without a long discipline in the grammar and principles of science . In spite of all make - believe to the contrary , this is the age of ...
... ancient languages , so no adequate appreciation of the newer scientific humanities can be derived without a long discipline in the grammar and principles of science . In spite of all make - believe to the contrary , this is the age of ...
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... ancients , would prove a dangerous helpmate , and the mushroom civilisation it had engendered would dissolve like the historic empires of the past , this time submerging the world . No one had guessed the truth , though geological ...
... ancients , would prove a dangerous helpmate , and the mushroom civilisation it had engendered would dissolve like the historic empires of the past , this time submerging the world . No one had guessed the truth , though geological ...
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... ancient lineage , from a material extracted from minerals found in rocks , many of them coeval with the beginning of geological time ? Tracked to earth , the clue to the great secret , for which a thousand telescopes might have swept ...
... ancient lineage , from a material extracted from minerals found in rocks , many of them coeval with the beginning of geological time ? Tracked to earth , the clue to the great secret , for which a thousand telescopes might have swept ...
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