Science and Life: Aberdeen AddressesJ. Murray, 1920 - 229 páginas |
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... nations being in the hands of people of archaic mental outlook , no mock deference has been paid to conventional habits of thought . The times seem to call for outspokenness , if one has anything to say , rather than persuasive ...
... nations being in the hands of people of archaic mental outlook , no mock deference has been paid to conventional habits of thought . The times seem to call for outspokenness , if one has anything to say , rather than persuasive ...
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... nation of the traditional school and university training , disastrous especially in that it embraces even those who are to be its rulers and statesmen . Naturally , radioactivity and its conclusions as to the immanence and ...
... nation of the traditional school and university training , disastrous especially in that it embraces even those who are to be its rulers and statesmen . Naturally , radioactivity and its conclusions as to the immanence and ...
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... nations ceases where it should begin . For a modern ruler the laws of the conservation and transformation of energy , whence the vivifying stream takes its source , the ways it wends its course in nature , and how , under wisdom and ...
... nations ceases where it should begin . For a modern ruler the laws of the conservation and transformation of energy , whence the vivifying stream takes its source , the ways it wends its course in nature , and how , under wisdom and ...
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... nation in its inter- national relationships . The principle of force as ultimate arbiter in international quarrels remained unchallenged through the nineteenth century , though a strong , if politically impotent , revulsion against it ...
... nation in its inter- national relationships . The principle of force as ultimate arbiter in international quarrels remained unchallenged through the nineteenth century , though a strong , if politically impotent , revulsion against it ...
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... nation will break every law , human and divine . Again there are others — the British Empire affords as good and as perplexing examples as any · against whom , for fear of being cheapened economically and socially , preventive measures ...
... nation will break every law , human and divine . Again there are others — the British Empire affords as good and as perplexing examples as any · against whom , for fear of being cheapened economically and socially , preventive measures ...
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