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... scientific progress from it , has , on the whole , been rather on the side of fragmentation . It was , for example , much easier for loosely organized tribes and village communities scattered over wide areas to coalesce into vague and ...
... scientific progress from it , has , on the whole , been rather on the side of fragmentation . It was , for example , much easier for loosely organized tribes and village communities scattered over wide areas to coalesce into vague and ...
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... scientific knowledge were occurring , and human cöoperation and the reaction of man upon man , not only in material , but also in mental things , was being made enormously more effective than it had ever been before . But the phrases of ...
... scientific knowledge were occurring , and human cöoperation and the reaction of man upon man , not only in material , but also in mental things , was being made enormously more effective than it had ever been before . But the phrases of ...
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... scientific and technical pro- gress has made inevitable . What has happened is essentially this : that the natural limita- tions upon warfare which have existed hitherto appear to have broken down . Hitherto there has been a certain ...
... scientific and technical pro- gress has made inevitable . What has happened is essentially this : that the natural limita- tions upon warfare which have existed hitherto appear to have broken down . Hitherto there has been a certain ...
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... scientific war which they had themselves released . In warfare the law of the utmost immediate exertion rules ; the combatant who does not put in all his possible energy is lost . In four brief years , therefore , Europe was compelled ...
... scientific war which they had themselves released . In warfare the law of the utmost immediate exertion rules ; the combatant who does not put in all his possible energy is lost . In four brief years , therefore , Europe was compelled ...
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... scientific examination of what is possible , what is impos- sible , what is necessary , and what is dangerous , must lead the mass of reasonable men in the world , whatever their class , origins , traditions and prejudices , to a ...
... scientific examination of what is possible , what is impos- sible , what is necessary , and what is dangerous , must lead the mass of reasonable men in the world , whatever their class , origins , traditions and prejudices , to a ...
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