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First work on this edition of the Britannica began , as has been pointed out
elsewhere , in 1947 with the appointment of a Board of Editors under the
leadership of Robert M . Hutchins . It took on a new seriousness and a new
immediacy a few ...
First work on this edition of the Britannica began , as has been pointed out
elsewhere , in 1947 with the appointment of a Board of Editors under the
leadership of Robert M . Hutchins . It took on a new seriousness and a new
immediacy a few ...
Page 206
It entered the current and began to drift away . “ Let ' s go home , ” I said to my
companion . From that moment I think I began to grow up . “ Papa , ” I said in the
evening by the oil lamp in our kitchen . “ Tell me how men got here . ” Papa
paused .
It entered the current and began to drift away . “ Let ' s go home , ” I said to my
companion . From that moment I think I began to grow up . “ Papa , ” I said in the
evening by the oil lamp in our kitchen . “ Tell me how men got here . ” Papa
paused .
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tion became current , a vast change began to pass over Western thought . Man ' s
conception of himself and his world began to alter beyond recall . “ ' Tis all in
pieces , all coherence gone , ” exclaimed the poet John Donne , Bacon ' s ...
tion became current , a vast change began to pass over Western thought . Man ' s
conception of himself and his world began to alter beyond recall . “ ' Tis all in
pieces , all coherence gone , ” exclaimed the poet John Donne , Bacon ' s ...
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| Title | The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, Volume 3 The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, ISBN 085229400X, 9780852294000 |
| Editor | William Benton |
| Edition | 15 |
| Publisher | Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1983 |
| ISBN | 085229400X, 9780852294000 |
| Length | 1023 pages |
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