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IN the study of man and his activities three types of cultural development may be recognized; and they are all measured by different standards. In the fine arts the imaginative qualities of the mind appeal primarily to the emotions through stimulation of the aesthetic judgment; material culture is the province of the industrial arts; and science—the domain of reason—is systematic and formulated knowledge in all fields of human understanding—natural, moral, social and political.
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GREGORY, R. SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION*. Nature 148, 612–616 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148612a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/148612a0