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... scientific inquiry began to move from its virtually complete victories in astronomy and physics and its partial victory in the field of living things over into the field of human affairs and concerns , the interests and institutions ...
... scientific inquiry began to move from its virtually complete victories in astronomy and physics and its partial victory in the field of living things over into the field of human affairs and concerns , the interests and institutions ...
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... scientific method ? To what nation of the world did our American universities look as the paragon of scientific perfection , and from which did they draw their greatest scientific inspiration ? It was from Germany . And yet there is no ...
... scientific method ? To what nation of the world did our American universities look as the paragon of scientific perfection , and from which did they draw their greatest scientific inspiration ? It was from Germany . And yet there is no ...
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... scientific subjects The Method of Scientific Investigation The following piece was first delivered as a speech in 1866 to an audience of unread workmen in England . Since Huxley , a great popularizer , here was at his best , the speech ...
... scientific subjects The Method of Scientific Investigation The following piece was first delivered as a speech in 1866 to an audience of unread workmen in England . Since Huxley , a great popularizer , here was at his best , the speech ...
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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