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... Knowledge and Men's Ideas ARGUMENT BASED ON DETAILS • Huxley , a famous scientist of the Victorian period , is here concerned with the relationship between science and religion . The speech from which this excerpt is taken was delivered ...
... Knowledge and Men's Ideas ARGUMENT BASED ON DETAILS • Huxley , a famous scientist of the Victorian period , is here concerned with the relationship between science and religion . The speech from which this excerpt is taken was delivered ...
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... knowledge . Men have acquired the ideas of the practically in- finite extent of the universe and of its practical eternity ; they are familiar with the conception that our earth is but an infinitesimal fragment of that part of the ...
... knowledge . Men have acquired the ideas of the practically in- finite extent of the universe and of its practical eternity ; they are familiar with the conception that our earth is but an infinitesimal fragment of that part of the ...
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... knowledge and our social - moral knowledge . This lack of harmony is a powerful factor in producing the present crisis with all its tragic features . For physi- cal knowledge and physical technology have far outstripped social or humane ...
... knowledge and our social - moral knowledge . This lack of harmony is a powerful factor in producing the present crisis with all its tragic features . For physi- cal knowledge and physical technology have far outstripped social or humane ...
Contents
SPACE ARRANGEMENT The Battlefield of Waterloo | 7 |
COMPARISON AND CONTRAST True and False Humor | 13 |
ANALOGY The Stagecoach from Looking Backward Edward Bellamy | 19 |
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