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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 .
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 .
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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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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 ...
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 ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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