Complete Essays: 1959-1963 and supplement, 1920-1948Ivan R. Dee, 2000 |
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... Progress IN ONE of the Central American Republics there is a little town called Progreso . It looked , when I passed through it , many years ago , very like all the other little towns of the region ... Progress 195 Paradoxes of Progress.
... Progress IN ONE of the Central American Republics there is a little town called Progreso . It looked , when I passed through it , many years ago , very like all the other little towns of the region ... Progress 195 Paradoxes of Progress.
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... Progress , we now see , is certainly not inevitable ; but , along with stagnation , relapse , and extinction , it is one of the facts of human history and of biological evolution . It is , however , an exceedingly odd and paradoxical ...
... Progress , we now see , is certainly not inevitable ; but , along with stagnation , relapse , and extinction , it is one of the facts of human history and of biological evolution . It is , however , an exceedingly odd and paradoxical ...
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... progress , though ob- jectively manifest , remains subjectively imperceptible . The second reason is to be found in the fact that custom is second nature , and that human be- ings have an amazing capacity for taking things for granted ...
... progress , though ob- jectively manifest , remains subjectively imperceptible . The second reason is to be found in the fact that custom is second nature , and that human be- ings have an amazing capacity for taking things for granted ...
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Heaven and Hell | 5 |
Facts and Fetishes | 49 |
A Case of Voluntary Ignorance | 59 |
Urheberrecht | |
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