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Naturalists , e.g. , Thomas ( 1979 ) , have made much recently of the network of mutual services between living things as if all of it were benign symbiosis ( a sort of Sunday School lesson to humanity ) rather than parasitism .
Naturalists , e.g. , Thomas ( 1979 ) , have made much recently of the network of mutual services between living things as if all of it were benign symbiosis ( a sort of Sunday School lesson to humanity ) rather than parasitism .
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... welfare agencies find jobs for ever more social workers who , it has recently been indubitably shown , succumb to all sorts of fake appeals and sly trickery in their " clients " ( at the cost of the hard - workers ' taxes ) .
... welfare agencies find jobs for ever more social workers who , it has recently been indubitably shown , succumb to all sorts of fake appeals and sly trickery in their " clients " ( at the cost of the hard - workers ' taxes ) .
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... we attach ourselves , will ultimately require some further abstraction , which at present we cannot define . But we cannot agree with the sort of pragmatist who says something must be true because believing it has salutary results .
... we attach ourselves , will ultimately require some further abstraction , which at present we cannot define . But we cannot agree with the sort of pragmatist who says something must be true because believing it has salutary results .
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Contents
Preface | vii |
Among Groups Not Individuals? | x |
What Has Group Competition To Do With Ethics | 13 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Beyondism: Religion from Science |
| Author | Raymond Bernard Cattell |
| Publisher | Praeger, 1987 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 22 Mar 2006 |
| ISBN | 0275924319, 9780275924317 |
| Length | 325 pages |
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