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The Outline of Science, Vol. 1

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The Outline of Science, Vol. 1
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Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
ISBN/ASIN: 3981216253
ISBN-13: 9783981216257
Number of pages: 388

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The aim of this book is to give the intelligent student-citizen, otherwise called "the man in the street," a bunch of intellectual keys by which to open doors which have been hitherto shut to him, partly because he got no glimpse of the treasures behind the doors, and partly because the portals were made forbidding by an unnecessary display of technicalities.

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