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We can hardly expect a Tolstoy or Dostoevsky in America when the deepest experience of these writers is not an organic and recognized part of American life : our extrovert civilization has developed other means of adjusting to life ...
We can hardly expect a Tolstoy or Dostoevsky in America when the deepest experience of these writers is not an organic and recognized part of American life : our extrovert civilization has developed other means of adjusting to life ...
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law's such as these are the only ones which apply to inorganic bodies ; and yet they do not to any serious degree explain the specific organic phenomena of hereditary repetition , of conception and death , of adaptability .
law's such as these are the only ones which apply to inorganic bodies ; and yet they do not to any serious degree explain the specific organic phenomena of hereditary repetition , of conception and death , of adaptability .
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Now , as soon as the efficient causality of culture is admitted to lie essentially on the psychobiological level , it is evident that cultural phenomena are , in the strict sense , only by - products of organic activities , epiphenomena ...
Now , as soon as the efficient causality of culture is admitted to lie essentially on the psychobiological level , it is evident that cultural phenomena are , in the strict sense , only by - products of organic activities , epiphenomena ...
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