Sleep Story 208 – Science and the Modern World
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The Progress of Civilization
There has been no occasion in the text to make detailed reference to lloyd morgan's emergent evolution, or to alexander's space, time and deity. The key to the book is the sense of the overwhelming importance of a prevalent philosophy. Copernicus and vasalius may be chosen as representative figures. Giidano bruno was the martyr, but the cause for which he suffered was not that of science, but that of free imaginative speculation. New epochs emerge with comparative su ness if we have regard to the scores of thousands of years throughout which the complete history extends. Technological discoveries transform the mechanism of human life. A primitive art quickly flowers into full satisfaction
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