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Page 24
... human voices in the distance . My cuckoo croaked overhead and spat down berry pits into my landlocked boat . Then magic began in the boat itself . The bottom boards had long since rotted away , and I sat on a mat of dry mangrove leaves ...
... human voices in the distance . My cuckoo croaked overhead and spat down berry pits into my landlocked boat . Then magic began in the boat itself . The bottom boards had long since rotted away , and I sat on a mat of dry mangrove leaves ...
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... human side of that marvelous experience failed to touch them . We were watching the revela- tion of awful beauty from above the harbor at New Haven , where the quiet water was carpeted with ice floes and the clean spars of ships were ...
... human side of that marvelous experience failed to touch them . We were watching the revela- tion of awful beauty from above the harbor at New Haven , where the quiet water was carpeted with ice floes and the clean spars of ships were ...
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... human mind has gained the consciousness which for a few minutes brooded over the surprised watchers of the eclipse . The universe we inhabit has opened out , backward and for- ward , upward and downward , to a degree almost ...
... human mind has gained the consciousness which for a few minutes brooded over the surprised watchers of the eclipse . The universe we inhabit has opened out , backward and for- ward , upward and downward , to a degree almost ...
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... human life must be sought even earlier , in the Oligocene , which preceded the Miocene , and he fixed that time as sixteen million years ago . This in itself is sufficiently striking , and it involves a remarkable coinci- dence , for ...
... human life must be sought even earlier , in the Oligocene , which preceded the Miocene , and he fixed that time as sixteen million years ago . This in itself is sufficiently striking , and it involves a remarkable coinci- dence , for ...
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... human history , has taken place before our eyes and has brought all persons over forty under a new set of masters , it is only natural to offer some explanation of how we , the oldsters , came to be dethroned . What we have suffered at ...
... human history , has taken place before our eyes and has brought all persons over forty under a new set of masters , it is only natural to offer some explanation of how we , the oldsters , came to be dethroned . What we have suffered at ...
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