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He can now master the human problem by a combination of ingenuity , industry , and perseverance , by asking , in a calm and impersonal mood , a prodigious number of artfully framed questions . Does not this attitude to the problem bear ...
He can now master the human problem by a combination of ingenuity , industry , and perseverance , by asking , in a calm and impersonal mood , a prodigious number of artfully framed questions . Does not this attitude to the problem bear ...
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They would have the world grow smaller and smaller , all of its empty spaces teeming with ant - like humanity — ant ... them with such devotion that they teach them new and subtle ways to increase their dominion over the human race .
They would have the world grow smaller and smaller , all of its empty spaces teeming with ant - like humanity — ant ... them with such devotion that they teach them new and subtle ways to increase their dominion over the human race .
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Everywhere around them stands immense nature , sometimes warning them that some day it will crumble down upon them and crush their petty civilization , and sometimes urging them to abandon the futile hopes and strifes of the human world ...
Everywhere around them stands immense nature , sometimes warning them that some day it will crumble down upon them and crush their petty civilization , and sometimes urging them to abandon the futile hopes and strifes of the human world ...
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CALIFORNIA | 1 |
Polands Tenth Birthday Charlotte Kellogg | 3 |
1914 E | 13 |
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