The Art of Growing OldJ. Cape, 1944 - 218 pages |
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... Science , crying ' Science Teaches ! ' ' Science Speaks ! ' ' Science Proves ! ' We are prepared to swallow as Infallible truth any crude and transitory dogma , if it comes with the Imprimatur of Science ; whereas when we're concerned ...
... Science , crying ' Science Teaches ! ' ' Science Speaks ! ' ' Science Proves ! ' We are prepared to swallow as Infallible truth any crude and transitory dogma , if it comes with the Imprimatur of Science ; whereas when we're concerned ...
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... Science , the pre- conceptions of Science , the assuagements and ameliorations offered by Science into their proper place , neither exalting this Rival of Religion into an universal and infallible Orthodoxy nor degrading it into the ...
... Science , the pre- conceptions of Science , the assuagements and ameliorations offered by Science into their proper place , neither exalting this Rival of Religion into an universal and infallible Orthodoxy nor degrading it into the ...
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... Science teaches ' that we must give up as ' degenerate self - indulgence ' at least half of the amiable palliatives that are our human compensation for life's miseries . What an enemy to this sort of sterile asceticism was ' the Great ...
... Science teaches ' that we must give up as ' degenerate self - indulgence ' at least half of the amiable palliatives that are our human compensation for life's miseries . What an enemy to this sort of sterile asceticism was ' the Great ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION L | 7 |
OLD AGE IN MAN AND WOMAN | 26 |
FEMININE OLD AGE AND NATURE | 37 |
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