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The spirit of research /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robertson, T. Brailsford (Thorburn Brailsford), 1884-1930
Other Authors: Robertson, Jane Winifred Stirling
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Adelaide : F. W. Preece & sons, 1931.
Subjects:
Science.
Research.
Table of Contents:
  • The spirit of research
  • Science as a vehicle of education
  • The cash value of scientific research
  • The historical continuity of science
  • The strategies of scientific investigation
  • Science and the war
  • The place of scientific research in the life that lies before us
  • Consciousness and the sense of time
  • The mechanistic origin of finalism
  • The life and work of a mechanistic philosopher, Jacques Loeb
  • The external inheritance of man
  • Who are "the fit" in social evolution?