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Again, the anticlerical parties in many countries to-day represent, in part, the
efforts of real reformers to break the political power of groups that have seized it
and hold it in the name of religion, when the real issues obviously have nothing ...
Again, the anticlerical parties in many countries to-day represent, in part, the
efforts of real reformers to break the political power of groups that have seized it
and hold it in the name of religion, when the real issues obviously have nothing ...
Page 107
First, because I am a scientist, I am apt to see human life as a chain of causes
and effects; the life of to-morrow will be what we make it to-day; as we sow, so
shall we reap. Second, because I am an astronomer, I am apt to see the
problems of ...
First, because I am a scientist, I am apt to see human life as a chain of causes
and effects; the life of to-morrow will be what we make it to-day; as we sow, so
shall we reap. Second, because I am an astronomer, I am apt to see the
problems of ...
Page 109
Yet in those early days science entered life in such small doses as to be
negligible. To-day, thanks to science, we advance more in a few years than our
ancestors did through the whole duration of the Stone Age. It is our use of this
weapon ...
Yet in those early days science entered life in such small doses as to be
negligible. To-day, thanks to science, we advance more in a few years than our
ancestors did through the whole duration of the Stone Age. It is our use of this
weapon ...
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