Star-begotten: A Biological FantasiaSphere Books, 1975 - 127 pages |
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Page 12
... stuff became irrelevant and indeed contemptibly crude . Reasonable men didn't assert . They didn't deny . They were thinking and living at a different level . You could no more reconstruct religion , social usage , political tradition ...
... stuff became irrelevant and indeed contemptibly crude . Reasonable men didn't assert . They didn't deny . They were thinking and living at a different level . You could no more reconstruct religion , social usage , political tradition ...
Page 17
... stuff about his taking Greek civilization to Persia and Egypt and India , you were merely giving him credit for what had happened already . Why ? Greek civilization owed nothing to him . He took ad- vantage of it . He picked it up and ...
... stuff about his taking Greek civilization to Persia and Egypt and India , you were merely giving him credit for what had happened already . Why ? Greek civilization owed nothing to him . He took ad- vantage of it . He picked it up and ...
Page 108
... stuff comes uppermost . That is all there is in a revolution . What I am talking about is not a revolution ; it is a new kind of behaviour ; it is daybreak . ' " The Enlightenment , ' said Davis , trying a phrase . ' Which is coming ...
... stuff comes uppermost . That is all there is in a revolution . What I am talking about is not a revolution ; it is a new kind of behaviour ; it is daybreak . ' " The Enlightenment , ' said Davis , trying a phrase . ' Which is coming ...
Contents
Mr Joseph Davis Learns about Cosmic Rays | 29 |
Mr Joseph Davis Wrestles with an Incredible Idea | 40 |
Dr Holdman Stedding Is Infected with the Idea | 49 |
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