Science and Life: Aberdeen AddressesJ. Murray, 1920 - 229 páginas |
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... material out of which the sum total of human happiness could have been augmented . Instead , it has but revealed a growing incapacity and failure on the part of the altruist to appreciate the nature and power of the new weapon that ...
... material out of which the sum total of human happiness could have been augmented . Instead , it has but revealed a growing incapacity and failure on the part of the altruist to appreciate the nature and power of the new weapon that ...
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... MATERIAL BASIS OF LIFE . To the altruist , to whom wealth and human happiness are far from being synonyms , science is viewed with distrust . A phrase " like the growing materialism of the age " is a curious betrayal of a habit of ...
... MATERIAL BASIS OF LIFE . To the altruist , to whom wealth and human happiness are far from being synonyms , science is viewed with distrust . A phrase " like the growing materialism of the age " is a curious betrayal of a habit of ...
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... material resources shall be made to contribute to the sum - total of human happiness ? For at present , it has not only shown itself powerless to bring about this result , but it is , an uncharitable observer might conclude , in league ...
... material resources shall be made to contribute to the sum - total of human happiness ? For at present , it has not only shown itself powerless to bring about this result , but it is , an uncharitable observer might conclude , in league ...
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... material changes are concerned . They cancel out . But the one essential physical factor that makes the process possible is the supply of energy as sunlight THE ENERGY OF COAL 11 to the plant , which 10 SCIENCE AND LIFE.
... material changes are concerned . They cancel out . But the one essential physical factor that makes the process possible is the supply of energy as sunlight THE ENERGY OF COAL 11 to the plant , which 10 SCIENCE AND LIFE.
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... material constituents and any form of available energy will probably become possible . Historically , and till quite recently , the energy of sunlight , apart from an insignificant source in the tides , was the sole income of energy ...
... material constituents and any form of available energy will probably become possible . Historically , and till quite recently , the energy of sunlight , apart from an insignificant source in the tides , was the sole income of energy ...
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