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Let us begin with a rapid glance over the last two centuries which a brief extract from a French medical treatise affords us . * Towards the middle of the eighteenth century the Abbé Nollet , a clever physicist , fascinated the world ...
Let us begin with a rapid glance over the last two centuries which a brief extract from a French medical treatise affords us . * Towards the middle of the eighteenth century the Abbé Nollet , a clever physicist , fascinated the world ...
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Since the end of the sixteenth century the spirit of the world has been against the representation of the Crucifixion in art . The frivolity and rationalism of the eighteenth century and the materialism of the nineteenth were alike ...
Since the end of the sixteenth century the spirit of the world has been against the representation of the Crucifixion in art . The frivolity and rationalism of the eighteenth century and the materialism of the nineteenth were alike ...
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During the present century , it is true , the whole ' classical ' conception of nature founded by Newton has been re - interpreted , and nineteenthcentury materialism has now a grim fight to keep alive . Last century , however , the ...
During the present century , it is true , the whole ' classical ' conception of nature founded by Newton has been re - interpreted , and nineteenthcentury materialism has now a grim fight to keep alive . Last century , however , the ...
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JANUARY | 1 |
The Problems of Malta | 10 |
WILL ENGLISH BE THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE | 47 |
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