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SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD
LOWELL LECTURES, 1925
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
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SCIENCE
AND THE MODERN WORLD
LOWELL LECTURES, 1925
BY
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
F.R.S., Sc.D. (Cambridge), Hon. D.Sc. (Manchester),
Hon. LL.D. (St. Andrews)
FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
AND PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1925
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Published October, 1925.
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