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It is something still infinitely remote ; and pointers towards it come in sight only as
we advance . This does not diminish its importance . A compass is a valuable
and indeed indispensable guide . But it is not a chart of the route . The content of
...
It is something still infinitely remote ; and pointers towards it come in sight only as
we advance . This does not diminish its importance . A compass is a valuable
and indeed indispensable guide . But it is not a chart of the route . The content of
...
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... to release atomic energy because of the catastrophic uses to which it can be ,
and has been , put . Such objections have not availed in the past , and seem
unlikely to avail in the future , to stay the advance of new discoveries and
inventions .
... to release atomic energy because of the catastrophic uses to which it can be ,
and has been , put . Such objections have not availed in the past , and seem
unlikely to avail in the future , to stay the advance of new discoveries and
inventions .
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When our political and economic pundits prescribe , they have nothing to offer us
but the warning to mistrust radical and far - reaching ideas , to shun anything that
savours of revolution , and to advance — if advance we must — as slowly and ...
When our political and economic pundits prescribe , they have nothing to offer us
but the warning to mistrust radical and far - reaching ideas , to shun anything that
savours of revolution , and to advance — if advance we must — as slowly and ...
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Introductory Note | ix |
Notes towards a Second | xvii |
The Historian and His Facts | 1 |
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| Titel | What is History?: The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961 @Trevelyan lectures given at the University of Cambridge George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures The Trevelyan lectures |
| Autoren | Edward Hallett Carr, Robert William Davies |
| Herausgeber | Robert William Davies |
| Ausgabe | 2, illustriert |
| Verlag | Macmillan, 1986 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 5. Juni 2008 |
| ISBN | 0333389565, 9780333389560 |
| Länge | 154 Seiten |
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