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... PROGRESS AS A POINT OF VIEW [ 1936 ] As scientists we cannot ask History : " Have we progressed ? Does the multiplication of mechanical devices represented by airplanes , hydroelectric sta- tions , poison gas , and submarines constitute ...
... PROGRESS AS A POINT OF VIEW [ 1936 ] As scientists we cannot ask History : " Have we progressed ? Does the multiplication of mechanical devices represented by airplanes , hydroelectric sta- tions , poison gas , and submarines constitute ...
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... progress , but of the reverse . 71 . Norbert Wiener THE SHORT HISTORY OF PROGRESS [ 1950 ] Our worship of progress may be discussed from two points of view : a factual one and an ethical one - that is , one which furnishes standards for ...
... progress , but of the reverse . 71 . Norbert Wiener THE SHORT HISTORY OF PROGRESS [ 1950 ] Our worship of progress may be discussed from two points of view : a factual one and an ethical one - that is , one which furnishes standards for ...
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... progress . True , we have made a technical ad- vance if by means of artificial fertilizers we succeed in squeezing uninterrupted crops out of our overburdened plough and pasture land . But this advance itself is at the same time the ...
... progress . True , we have made a technical ad- vance if by means of artificial fertilizers we succeed in squeezing uninterrupted crops out of our overburdened plough and pasture land . But this advance itself is at the same time the ...
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Awareness of the Living World | 3 |
MANS DOMINION | 97 |
THE FLAMING SWORD | 267 |
Copyright | |
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abundance acres agriculture Aldo Leopold American animals areas beauty become birds buffalo busy monster Canaan Mountain century Charles Galton Darwin chemical cities civilization coal conservation conservationism crops desert Ducktown E. E. Cummings earth ecological ecologist economic environment environmental farm feet fertility fields fish forest future Gerard Piel grass green ground grow growth hills human hundred increase Indians industrial insects John Muir kill lake land land ethic landscape live look man's Mark Van Doren means ment miles million Mississippi mountain National Park nature nature's ocean parathion perhaps pesticides plain plants poison pollution population portions preserve problem produce region reservoirs rich river road rock selection soil spring streams things Thomas Cole thousand timber tion town trees valley vast vegetable Wasichus waste wild wilderness wind woods