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Page 105
... kind of world through which we passed in the buccaneering age of early unbridled exploita- tion of natural resources ; an age in which private banks could draw the savings of common people and explode like a Fourth of July celebration ...
... kind of world through which we passed in the buccaneering age of early unbridled exploita- tion of natural resources ; an age in which private banks could draw the savings of common people and explode like a Fourth of July celebration ...
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... kind of error required to make the phenomena assimilable to the prejudices of existing science , and the trick was done . Hypnosis has been recognized and studied since his time . If I may permit myself a small prophecy , I would ...
... kind of error required to make the phenomena assimilable to the prejudices of existing science , and the trick was done . Hypnosis has been recognized and studied since his time . If I may permit myself a small prophecy , I would ...
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... kind of scientific approach ; the as- sumption that science must depersonalize and mechanize hu- man nature - can stifle and destroy the potentialities for intelli- gent social choice which exist . But in the meantime they do exist ...
... kind of scientific approach ; the as- sumption that science must depersonalize and mechanize hu- man nature - can stifle and destroy the potentialities for intelli- gent social choice which exist . But in the meantime they do exist ...
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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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