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If I understood aright what I read , I must suppose that at the beginning the two
forces of cosmical attraction and repulsion balanced so that the universe
remained for untold ages in a state of perfect equilibrium . Then at some moment
this was ...
If I understood aright what I read , I must suppose that at the beginning the two
forces of cosmical attraction and repulsion balanced so that the universe
remained for untold ages in a state of perfect equilibrium . Then at some moment
this was ...
Page 244
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 course of
time the ...
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 course of
time the ...
Page 278
I am willing enough to accept the existence of the universe as an enigma the wit
of man cannot hope to solve . So far as the existence of life is concerned I am not
disinclined to believe that there is a psychophysical stuff in which is the germ of ...
I am willing enough to accept the existence of the universe as an enigma the wit
of man cannot hope to solve . So far as the existence of life is concerned I am not
disinclined to believe that there is a psychophysical stuff in which is the germ of ...
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| Title | The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1 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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