What Dare I Think?: The Challenge of Modern Science To Human Action & Belief: Including the Henry LaBarre Jayne Foundation Lectures (Philadelphia) For 1931
by HUXLEY, JULIAN
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Chatto & WIndus 1931. First edition, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, ix + 270pp, VG (brusing and rubbing to spine extrems, v.light soiling to boards,light rubbing to board corners, light foxing to prelims & terminals, number in ink to fep)
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- What Dare I Think?: The Challenge of Modern Science To Human Action & Belief: Including the Henry LaBarre Jayne Foundation Lectures (Philadelphia) For 1931
- Author
- HUXLEY, JULIAN
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & WIndus 1931
- Keywords
- biology zoology lectures essays science religion ethics evolution
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