Human Potentialities1958 |
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Page 198
... trends of history . Some feel that such trends " just happen " ; or that they spring automatically from the occasional genius of a great leader ; or that they arise from deeply unpre- dictable changes in economic techniques with ...
... trends of history . Some feel that such trends " just happen " ; or that they spring automatically from the occasional genius of a great leader ; or that they arise from deeply unpre- dictable changes in economic techniques with ...
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... trends are set going which fulfill themselves insofar as the social environ- ments permit . He may , by taking thought , further the biological trends , making the human stock fit for a new world ; but some biological change will occur ...
... trends are set going which fulfill themselves insofar as the social environ- ments permit . He may , by taking thought , further the biological trends , making the human stock fit for a new world ; but some biological change will occur ...
Page 257
... trends might reverse ; but we are thinking now of cumulative trends or cumulative social changes , and it is quite possible that , on a very wide front , biological changes based upon such associations of genes are arising from the ...
... trends might reverse ; but we are thinking now of cumulative trends or cumulative social changes , and it is quite possible that , on a very wide front , biological changes based upon such associations of genes are arising from the ...
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Our Twentiethcentury Vantage Point | 3 |
The Invention of Culture | 47 |
How We Come to Want What We Want | 60 |
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