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It is different now , and the difference has been occasioned , I suppose , by the advent of the cinema . To - day , audiences , especially in English - speaking countries , have learnt to see the point of a scene at once and having seen ...
It is different now , and the difference has been occasioned , I suppose , by the advent of the cinema . To - day , audiences , especially in English - speaking countries , have learnt to see the point of a scene at once and having seen ...
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It may be that this planet alone can support life , or it may be that in other parts of the universe other planets have had the possibility of forming a suitable environment to that substance from which , we suppose , along the vast ...
It may be that this planet alone can support life , or it may be that in other parts of the universe other planets have had the possibility of forming a suitable environment to that substance from which , we suppose , along the vast ...
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We may suppose that consciousness was kindled in man as an instrument to enable him to deal with his environment and that for long ages it reached no higher development than was needed to deal with the vital problems of his practice .
We may suppose that consciousness was kindled in man as an instrument to enable him to deal with his environment and that for long ages it reached no higher development than was needed to deal with the vital problems of his practice .
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| Title | The Summing Up Volume 17 of Contemporary English series Volume 60 of Mentor books |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Doubleday, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 279 pages |
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