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... tive mind would thus combine two ideas and make a third idea . Later , we begin to wonder how so vast a structure as a man's mind . can be built by a process of sheer connecting . It is certainly true that Mozart had , by the age of ...
... tive mind would thus combine two ideas and make a third idea . Later , we begin to wonder how so vast a structure as a man's mind . can be built by a process of sheer connecting . It is certainly true that Mozart had , by the age of ...
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... tive — joined , indeed , by complex memory materials from large segments of our personal autobiography . As Charles Dana Gib- son said , " words that laugh and cry " may bring back not just the ideas but the whole of a personal response ...
... tive — joined , indeed , by complex memory materials from large segments of our personal autobiography . As Charles Dana Gib- son said , " words that laugh and cry " may bring back not just the ideas but the whole of a personal response ...
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... tive eugenics : the long - range encouragement , direct and indi- rect , of favoring the stocks freest of defective genes . But the nega- tive approach is also important . Defective genes are of enormous importance in human evolu- tion ...
... tive eugenics : the long - range encouragement , direct and indi- rect , of favoring the stocks freest of defective genes . But the nega- tive approach is also important . Defective genes are of enormous importance in human evolu- tion ...
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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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