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1. This will be particularly true since energy pinch will make it difficult to continue agriculture in

the high-energy American fashion that makes it possible to combine few farmers with high yields.

2. Now since the assessment of intelligence is a comparative matter

，

we must be sure that the

scale with which we are comparing our subjects provides a“valid”or“fair”comparison.

3. In general

，

the tests work most effectively when the qualities to be measured can be most

precisely defined and least effectively when what is to be measured or predicted can be not well

defined.

4. For example

，

they do not compensate for gross social inequality

，

and thus do not tell how

able an underprivileged youngster might have been had he grown up under more favorable

circumstances.

leads the discussion to extremes at the outset

：

it invites you to think that animals should be

treated either with the consideration humans extend to other humans

，

or with no consideration at

all.

6. But even more important

，

it was the farthest that scientists had been able to look into the

past

，

for what they were seeing were the patterns and structures that existed 15 billion years ago.

7. Thus it happened that when the new factories that were springing up required labor

，

tens of

thousands of homeless and hungry agricultural workers

，

with their wives and children

，

were

forced into the cities in search of work

，

and any work

，

under any condition

，

that would keep

them alive.

8. As a result of two or three centuries of scientific investigation we have come to believe that

nature is understandable in the sense that when we ask her questions by way of appropriate

observations and experiments

，

she will answer truly and reward us with discoveries that endure.

9. These new observational capabilities would result in simply a mass of details were it not for the

fact that theoretical understanding has reached the stage at which it is becoming possible to

indicate the kind of measurements required for reliable weather forecasting.

10. The story of the discovery of what is now generally called the principle of Archimedes

，

namely that a solid body when immersed in a liquid loses a portion of its weight of the liquid it

displaces

，

has many different versions

，

of which the following is one.

11. We assumed that there were forces of attraction between molecules which varied rapidly with

the distance so that the attraction between molecules that were more than a few ten millionths of a

millimeter apart was very small but became considerable when the molecules approached more

closely.

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12. This need is enshrined in the concept of sustainable development

，

which means that we

must

，

for the benefit of coming generations

，

leave enough environmental space so that these

generations will be able to address their needs and fulfill their aspirations.

13. Painting lacks only the means to represent movement in time and space

，

which is the special

property of sculpture and architecture

，

since a painting is designed to be seen from one point at

one time

，

whereas sculpture and architecture are created to be seen from various points of view

，

thus supplying movements in space and time.

14. Once intimidated by arguments that their children would feel more at home in bilingual

classes

，

and that they might lose their heritage in regular classes

，

these women have since given

voice

，

loudly and persuasively

，

to what they know from experience that unless they are fluent in

the language of their adopted country

，

their children will never attend college or land any but the

most menial of jobs.

15. The presumption on which human cloning rests is that all these cells

，

though now

specialized

，

still contain exact copies of the original set of genetic instructions needed to make an

entire individual and can do so if a way is found to switch them back on.

16. Thus

，

a regularity for which there are general theoretical grounds will be more readily called

a natural law than an empirical regularity that cannot be subsumed under more general laws or

theories.

17. It is because of the close association in most people’s minds of

tools with man that special

attention has always been focused upon any animal able to use an object as a tool

，

but it is

important to realize that this ability

，

on its own

，

does not necessarily indicate any special

intelligence in the creature concerned.

18. The point at which tool using and tool making acquire evolutionary significance is surely

when an animal can adapt its ability to manipulate objects to a wide variety of purposes

，

and

when it can use an object spontaneously to solve a brand-new problem that without the use of a

tool would prove insoluble.

19. It was the desire to be scholarly that brought about a wave of Latin terms which appeared in

the 16th century when the humanist movement brought new impetus to learning throughout

Europe.

20. So don’t b

e surprised if you never encounter some of the expressions that still appear in school

textbooks; and next time you hear somebody using a strange word you haven’t heard before

，

you

can comfort yourself that there may well be a native speaker somewhere who d

oesn’t know it

either.

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21. Despite the saying that one never knows if lightning strikes him

，

a person can sometimes feel

the bolt coming and if quick enough

，

take protective action in time.

22. The“shareholder”as such had no knowledge of the lives, thoughts

or needs of the workmen

employed by the company in which he held shares, and his influence on the relations of capital

and labor was not good.

23. The paid manager acting for the company was in more direct relation with the men and their

demands, but even he had seldom that familiar personal knowledge of the workmen which the

employer had often had under the more patriarchal system of the old family business now passing

away.

24. When a journalist recently accused the company of lacking integrity in its testing of beauty

products

，

the company overtly appealed to the public by citing its corporate brand

，

which was

firmly associated in people’s minds with strong ethical standards concerning animal rights.

25. However

，

the criminals quickly came to realize that the real value in the computers is in the

chip which is remarkably portable and unidentifiable

，

so even when caught the police have

trouble proving the theft.

26. Although perhaps only 1 percent of the life that has started somewhere will develop into

highly complex and intelligent patterns

，

so vast is the number of planets that intelligent life is

bound to be a natural part of the universe.

27. Such large, impersonal manipulation of capital and industry greatly increased the numbers and

importance of shareholders as a class, an element in national life representing irresponsible wealth

detached from the land and the duties of the landowners; and almost equally detached from the

responsible management of business.

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Towns like Bournemouth and Eastboune spran

g up to house large “Comfortable

had retired on their incomes, and who had no relation to the rest of the community except that of

drawing dividends and occasionally attending a shareholders' meeting to dictate their orders to the

management.

29

．

Robert Fulton once wrote, “The mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges,

wheels, etc., like a poet among the letters of the alphabet, considering them as an exhibition of his

thoughts, in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea.”

30

．

Some of these causes are completely reasonable results of social needs. Others are reasonable

consequences of particular advances in science being to some extent self-accelerating.

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