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... easier to explain , give us a far better conception of the mean- ing of scientific evolution . To begin with they are spread over a much longer period . Modern science , as defined above , is after all hardly more than EAST AND WEST 61.
... easier to explain , give us a far better conception of the mean- ing of scientific evolution . To begin with they are spread over a much longer period . Modern science , as defined above , is after all hardly more than EAST AND WEST 61.
Page 64
... begin . And what can be more funda- mental than a good beginning ? Is it not the founda- tion upon which all the rest will be built ? Unfortunately we shall never have any adequate information on this , the most critical period of man's ...
... begin . And what can be more funda- mental than a good beginning ? Is it not the founda- tion upon which all the rest will be built ? Unfortunately we shall never have any adequate information on this , the most critical period of man's ...
Page 87
... begin by learning how from the very rudiments . And yet within a couple of centuries multitudes had acquired some familiarity with that language which had been utterly unknown to their ancestors , if not to their own parents . The ...
... begin by learning how from the very rudiments . And yet within a couple of centuries multitudes had acquired some familiarity with that language which had been utterly unknown to their ancestors , if not to their own parents . The ...
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