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If I am opposed to nationalism and war, it is not merely because these things
represent an immense waste of energy, but because they sustain a cant of blind
discipline and loyalty and a paraphernalia of flags, uniforms, and parades that ...
If I am opposed to nationalism and war, it is not merely because these things
represent an immense waste of energy, but because they sustain a cant of blind
discipline and loyalty and a paraphernalia of flags, uniforms, and parades that ...
Page 145
As the evidence accumulated, the evolutionary origin of all living things became
a certainty. Then as now, zoologists were searching for the way of evolution —
the manner in which transformation is effected in plants and animals; and
although ...
As the evidence accumulated, the evolutionary origin of all living things became
a certainty. Then as now, zoologists were searching for the way of evolution —
the manner in which transformation is effected in plants and animals; and
although ...
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A pang of hunger or of love, a loaf of bread, a beautiful face, a stumbling in the
dark or a burst of music are all the testimony and all the science I need to give me
a sense of the hang of things, and to make me realize that those folds as they ...
A pang of hunger or of love, a loaf of bread, a beautiful face, a stumbling in the
dark or a burst of music are all the testimony and all the science I need to give me
a sense of the hang of things, and to make me realize that those folds as they ...
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