Knowledge is Power: A Guide to Personal CultureHutchinson, 1935 - 360 pages |
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... existence . It is a wonderful fact that every living thing tends to increase with such extreme rapidity that if there were no checks upon its progeny the whole earth would be covered by the descen- dants of a single pair . Darwin gives ...
... existence . It is a wonderful fact that every living thing tends to increase with such extreme rapidity that if there were no checks upon its progeny the whole earth would be covered by the descen- dants of a single pair . Darwin gives ...
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... existence , and in this way also were great races built up . For many long centuries the great factor of social evolution was the military character . If this was weak in a race , that race was either crushed into the mud beneath the ...
... existence , and in this way also were great races built up . For many long centuries the great factor of social evolution was the military character . If this was weak in a race , that race was either crushed into the mud beneath the ...
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... existence , for , on the contrary , the whole tendency of altruism up to the present has been to intensify the struggle for existence . Ever since Christianity conquered the world there has been a slow and gradual emancipation of the ...
... existence , for , on the contrary , the whole tendency of altruism up to the present has been to intensify the struggle for existence . Ever since Christianity conquered the world there has been a slow and gradual emancipation of the ...
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