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Page 28
... hands . Or more exactly , much of our thinking was inspired by the purely technical or manual part of our labor ... hands were busy ; it is almost as if they thought with their hands . Of course the same gamut of inventiveness can be ob ...
... hands . Or more exactly , much of our thinking was inspired by the purely technical or manual part of our labor ... hands were busy ; it is almost as if they thought with their hands . Of course the same gamut of inventiveness can be ob ...
Page 47
... hand the resistance to scientific novelties was due to an intuitive , if uncon- scious , appreciation of their revolutionary nature . The slightest and the most innocent scientific in- novation is but a wedge which is bound to penetrate ...
... hand the resistance to scientific novelties was due to an intuitive , if uncon- scious , appreciation of their revolutionary nature . The slightest and the most innocent scientific in- novation is but a wedge which is bound to penetrate ...
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... hand if one's aim is to create beauty , the more beauty there is around him created by others - the better it is , and when he dies , what he has created is added to the capital of beauty of the whole world . It is the same with justice ...
... hand if one's aim is to create beauty , the more beauty there is around him created by others - the better it is , and when he dies , what he has created is added to the capital of beauty of the whole world . It is the same with justice ...
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