Man and Civilization: An Inquiry Into the Bases of Contemporary LifeHarcourt, Brace, 1927 - 449 páginas |
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... considerable array of specific data ( still rather scattered and fragmentary , it is true ) that can help them to a better understanding of contemporary life and its problems . Preliminary editions of the book were used during the last ...
... considerable array of specific data ( still rather scattered and fragmentary , it is true ) that can help them to a better understanding of contemporary life and its problems . Preliminary editions of the book were used during the last ...
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... considerably over nine billion nerve cells , in addition to many cells of other types . The behavior of the organism depends on the manner in which these nerve cells act upon each other and upon the other cells of which the organism is ...
... considerably over nine billion nerve cells , in addition to many cells of other types . The behavior of the organism depends on the manner in which these nerve cells act upon each other and upon the other cells of which the organism is ...
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... considerable number of traits not actually displayed in the body . This means that every new generation offers a new deal , so that it is really in part possible for the group to decide whether the new hand . shall be played in the same ...
... considerable number of traits not actually displayed in the body . This means that every new generation offers a new deal , so that it is really in part possible for the group to decide whether the new hand . shall be played in the same ...
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... considerable degree depend on each other is shown by the fact that they seldom function sep- arately and alone . At the same time complete coördination is never realized , for although many coördinations not present at birth are ...
... considerable degree depend on each other is shown by the fact that they seldom function sep- arately and alone . At the same time complete coördination is never realized , for although many coördinations not present at birth are ...
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... considerable number of cul- tural loans of the very first magnitude . Modern science , modern art , and modern philosophy were fed at their sources by materials drawn from Greek culture ; the Christian religion originated in Palestine ...
... considerable number of cul- tural loans of the very first magnitude . Modern science , modern art , and modern philosophy were fed at their sources by materials drawn from Greek culture ; the Christian religion originated in Palestine ...
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Man and Civilization: An Inquiry Into the Bases of Contemporary Life John Storck Vista completa - 1927 |
Man and Civilization: An Inquiry Into the Bases of Contemporary Life John Storck Vista completa - 1927 |
Man and Civilization: An Inquiry Into the Bases of Contemporary Life John Storck Vista completa - 1927 |
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Página 291 - ... every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it.
Página 68 - It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are 135 living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Página 331 - For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
Página 368 - I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour! That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love; — then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.
Página 331 - Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
Página 435 - Render therefore to all their dues : tribute to whom tribute is due ; custom to whom custom ; fear to whom fear ; honour to whom honour.
Página 291 - It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our , dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages.
Página 405 - The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination ; that in the most successful instances not a tenth of the suggestions, the hopes, the wishes, the preliminary conclusions have been realized.
Página 53 - Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one...
Página 355 - Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them...