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Page xiii
Now I would say that to find in the works of science of the past , that which is not and cannot be superseded , is perhaps the most important part of our own quest . A true humanist must know the life of science as he knows the life of ...
Now I would say that to find in the works of science of the past , that which is not and cannot be superseded , is perhaps the most important part of our own quest . A true humanist must know the life of science as he knows the life of ...
Page xiv
It is worthwhile to interrogate the past as fully as we can , because the race is more important than the individual . If the individual were more important , our yesterdays would be like corpses and the past would really be a thing of ...
It is worthwhile to interrogate the past as fully as we can , because the race is more important than the individual . If the individual were more important , our yesterdays would be like corpses and the past would really be a thing of ...
Page 147
... to penetrate origins and to unravel chronological sequences , a willingness to replace ideas in their own background before attempting to judge them , the faculty of seeing the past live in the present and the present in the past .
... to penetrate origins and to unravel chronological sequences , a willingness to replace ideas in their own background before attempting to judge them , the faculty of seeing the past live in the present and the present in the past .
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| Title | The History of Science and the New Humanism Carnegie Institution of Washington. Elihu Root lectures on the influence of science and research on current thought Charles K. Colver lectures Charles K. Colver lectures, Brown University Colver lectures Elihu Root lectures at the Carnegie Institution of Washington Elihu Root lectures on the influence of science and research on current thought, Carnegie Institution of Washington Elihu Root lectures, Carnegie Institution of Washington Midland book Issue 20 of Supplementary publication, Carnegie institution of Washington |
| Author | George Sarton |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Braziller, 1956 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 196 pages |
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